Laney's node-spotter function [from Idoru] is some sort of metaphor for whatever it is that I actually do. There are bits of the literal future right here, right now, if you know how to look for them. Although I can't tell you how; it's a non-rational process. William Gibson, August 1999One of the more memorable incidents in Gibson's 2007 novel Idoru involves a young woman who plans to have a video communication with a woman in Tokyo. She carefully plans what she is going to wear. Once she dec...
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