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* “Netherton said nothing, something he'd only recently been learning to deliberately do.” — AGENCY
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William Gibson’s Mona Lisa Overdrive (1988). More than 20 years before Apple came up with Siri.
“Angela,” the house said, its voice quiet but compelling, “I have a call from Hilton Swift…
“Executive override?” She was eating baked beans and toast at the kitchen counter.
“No,” it said, confidingly.
“Change your tone,” she said, around a mouthful of
beans. “Something with an edge of anxiety.”
“Mr. Swift is waiting,” the house said nervously.
“Better,” she said, carrying bowl and plate to the washer, “but I want something closer to genuine hysteria…”
“Will you take the call?” The voice was choked with tension. “No,” she said, “but keep your voice that way, I like it.”
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* “He, like everyone else, … is exactly where, exactly what, exactly when he is meant to be. It is the Tao.” — All Tomorrow’s Parties
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* “Laney had recently noticed that the only people who had titles that clearly described their jobs had jobs he wouldn’t have wanted.” — Idoru (1996)
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* “History in the older sense was narrative, stories we told ourselves about where we’d come from and what it had been like, and those narratives were revised by each new generation, and indeed always had been. History was plastic, was a matter of interpretation. The digital had not so much changed that as made it too obvious to ignore. History was stored data, subject to manipulation and interpretation.” — All Tomorrow’s Parties by William Gibson
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* What I want to ask you is Who are you? Where are you? Are you dreaming? Are you there? The way I’m here? — Pattern Recognition, page 256
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* “I suspect I have spent just about exactly as much time actually writing as the average person my age has spent watching television, and that, as much as anything, may be the real secret here.”
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William Gibson’s Mona Lisa Overdrive (1988). More than 20 years before Apple came up with Siri.
“Angela,” the house said, its voice quiet but compelling, “I have a call from Hilton Swift…
“Executive override?” She was eating baked beans and toast at the kitchen counter.
“No,” it said, confidingly.
“Change your tone,” she said, around a mouthful of
beans. “Something with an edge of anxiety.”
“Mr. Swift is waiting,” the house said nervously.
“Better,” she said, carrying bowl and plate to the washer, “but I want something closer to genuine hysteria…”
“Will you take the call?” The voice was choked with tension. “No,” she said, “but keep your voice that way, I like it.”
==========
* “He, like everyone else, … is exactly where, exactly what, exactly when he is meant to be. It is the Tao.” — All Tomorrow’s Parties
...
* “Laney had recently noticed that the only people who had titles that clearly described their jobs had jobs he wouldn’t have wanted.” — Idoru (1996)
...
* “History in the older sense was narrative, stories we told ourselves about where we’d come from and what it had been like, and those narratives were revised by each new generation, and indeed always had been. History was plastic, was a matter of interpretation. The digital had not so much changed that as made it too obvious to ignore. History was stored data, subject to manipulation and interpretation.” — All Tomorrow’s Parties by William Gibson
...
* What I want to ask you is Who are you? Where are you? Are you dreaming? Are you there? The way I’m here? — Pattern Recognition, page 256
...
* “I suspect I have spent just about exactly as much time actually writing as the average person my age has spent watching television, and that, as much as anything, may be the real secret here.”
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