It will bring about the extinction of the nation-state as we know it... I think it will be as big a deal as the creation of cities. - William Gibson

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It will bring about the extinction of the nation-state as we know it... I think it will be as big a deal as the creation of cities.

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About William Gibson

William Ford Gibson (born 17 March 1948) is an American-Canadian speculative fiction writer and essayist widely credited with pioneering the science fiction subgenre known as cyberpunk. Gibson coined the term "cyberspace" in his short story "Burning Chrome" and later popularized the concept in his debut novel, Neuromancer (1984). Gibson's novels are grouped into four informal trilogies:

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Birth Name: William Ford Gibson

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"Take me home," she said, and the words hit me like a whip. I think I shook my head. "Take me home." There were levels of pain there, and subtlety, and an amazing cruelty. And I knew then that I'd never been hated, ever, as deeply or thoroughly as this wasted little girl hated me now, hated me for the way I'd looked, then looked away, beside Rubin's all-beer refrigerator.

So — if that's the word — I did one of those things you do and never find out why, even though something in you knows you could never have done anything else.

I took her home.

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