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Re:The refugees who sheltered Edward Snowden in 2013 in Hong... by cvwright on Wednesday September 07, 2016 @01:42PM (#12445428)
Quite a striking contrast between the super high tech spy world on the one hand and the poverty of the Hong Kong refugees on the other. It's like something out of a William Gibson novel from the 80's or 90's.

Sometimes I wonder if Gibson himself is surprised at the similarities between his 1980's fantasy world and our current reality. The world is a strange place...

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Re:The refugees who sheltered Edward Snowden in 2013 in Hong... by hiddenkrypt on Wednesday September 07, 2016 @02:31PM (#12445814)
He is fond of saying "The future is already here — it's just not very evenly distributed."

I've seen a quote attributed to him along the lines of "Cyberpunk as a genre died out because if became real life", but I have not been able to track down any source or proof of that attribution.

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