William Gibson

Person · Open Library

Born

13 November 1914

Died

25 November 2008

Works

40

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

United States

Active from

1928-04-03

Active to

2003-11-17

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

4,044

Total plays

91,590

William Ford Gibson, born March 17, 1948 (1948-03-17) (age 59), in Conway, South Carolina is an American-Canadian writer who has been called the "noir prophet" of the cyberpunk subgenre of science fiction.[16] Gibson coined the term cyberspace in 1982, and popularized the concept in his debut novel, Neuromancer (1984). In depicting a visualised worldwide communications network before the ubiquity of the Internet, Gibson is credited with anticipating important aspects <a href="https://www.last.fm

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. VMD: Visual molecular dynamics

   · 1996 · cited 61,655x

2. CLUSTAL W: improving the sensitivity of progressive multiple sequence alignment through sequence weighting, position-specific gap penalties and weight matrix choice

   · 1994 · cited 51,860x

3. Theory of the firm: Managerial behavior, agency costs and ownership structure

   · 1976 · cited 43,946x

4. Comparison of simple potential functions for simulating liquid water

   · 1983 · cited 39,031x

5. QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data

   · 2010 · cited 30,752x

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Quotes

• “The future is already here — it's just not very evenly distributed.”
• “The NET is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.”
• “In 1977, facing first-time parenthood and an absolute lack of enthusiasm for anything like "career," I found myself dusting off my twelve-year-old's interest in science fiction. Simultaneously, weird noises were being heard from New York and London. I took Punk to be the detonation of some slow-fused projectile buried deep in society's flank a decade earlier, and I took it to be, somehow, a sign. And I began, then, to write. And have been, ever since.”
• “The future is not google-able.”
• “There is always a point at which the terrorist ceases to manipulate the media gestalt. A point at which the violence may well escalate, but beyond which the terrorist has become symptomatic of the media gestalt itself. Terrorism as we ordinarily understand it is innately media-related.”
• “Loss is not without its curious advantages for the artist. Major traumatic breaks are pretty common in the biographies of artists I respect.”

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Wikidata facts

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