{"id":532,"date":"2007-11-12T08:24:59","date_gmt":"2007-11-12T12:24:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=532"},"modified":"2007-11-08T11:27:51","modified_gmt":"2007-11-08T15:27:51","slug":"interview-with-william-gibson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=532","title":{"rendered":"Interview with William Gibson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 40th Anniversary issue of <I>Rolling Stone<\/I> magazine has an interview with William Gibson, including some musings on the future of computing.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><B>When you coined the word &#8220;cyberspace,&#8221; did you envision that the term might be your lasting legacy?<\/B><\/p>\n<p>Not at all. I thought the book would be despised to the extent that it wasn&#8217;t ignored. Now, on a good day, my career seems so utterly unlikely that I wonder if I&#8217;m not about to snap out of a DMT blackout and discover that I&#8217;m not actually a famous writer of William Gibson novels but that I&#8217;m working at a used-book shop that smells of cat pee and drinking beer out of a cracked coffee mug.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/politics\/story\/17227831\/william_gibson_the_rolling_stone_40th_anniversary_interview\/print\">Link<\/A> <I>(via <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/\">BoingBoing<\/A>)<\/I><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 40th Anniversary issue of Rolling Stone magazine has an interview with William Gibson, including some musings on the future of computing. When you coined the word &#8220;cyberspace,&#8221; did you envision that the term might be your lasting legacy? Not at all. I thought the book would be despised to the extent that it wasn&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}