AWW21 The Future is Now - William Gibson

The man who invented “cyberspace”, William Gibson is one of the
most influential writers of our time. From his groundbreaking
debut novel Neuromancer, to his latest bestseller Agency, he was
the first to imagine a computer-saturated existence, grounded in
an all-too-material world, and to anticipate its implications.
The philosophies and practicalities of the near futures of his
books stem from a deep and fascinated engagement with the
present, as embodied in his most famous aphorism: “The future is
already here, it’s just not evenly distributed.”


Chaired by James Bradley