William Gibson - That Spooky Post-Geographical Feeling

[AndrasAnders]

What's up with the car's windows, it looks like the car is going in reverse and forward at the same time.

[Grymyrk]

It's called paranoid schizophrenia.

[newpip14]

What disturbs me about this video is around about the 1 minute mark, for about 10 seconds, we see a view of the car window where the trees are moving the wrong way....

[hudson]

the director employs a number of strange slightly off-putting effects like that throughout the doc. highly recommended for both the gibsonisms and the visual style.

[dangerusdave1138]

Funny. Seeing pictures of him, this thin, extremely tall, extremely lanky guy, I always thought he would have a really high Anthony Daniels kind of voice, but I think his actual voice suits him better. That might sound weird. Does it?

[Biochips1]

The man is a genius.

[erago]

he is one of the 3 great writers.

1. Dashiell Hammett

2. William Gibson

3. Irvine Welsh

[1oneundergod1]

you had a connected moment

see now a year later i find this connection[from the other side of the world]

then was 'realtime'[now] for you

now is realtime for me

god lives in the 'real,living moment [free of time ]because he only is in the realtime ,in this living moment[now]

god conects your time and my time in real time all the time

the living loving one ness,sustaining all of us in real time to live [to live to love]even then as now

[hudson]

stuff like this gives me some confidence that perhaps technology and the internet may be taking humanity closer to god. though the supposition that we need to be any closer than we already are may be the real problem.

[1oneundergod1]

think we are at an accident scene

there are people needing us to help

most will,emergencies bring us closer,and that closness is good

of course we all get sick of people [thats why im in my bedroom]

yet i know enough through my lonelyness that people are needing to become closer

the system came up with aids,thats when the world shut down,our lover could kill us

they subverted comunal closeness to get control over us with us or against us

a neo con sort of con-trol

[AndrasAnders]

How do you know this??? Do you have any proof?

[macnkirby]

Notice how the scenery in the window on his right appears to be moving as if the car is driving backward sometimes, but the scenery on his left out the rear window is moving as if the car is driving forward. It only sometimes does this. what's up with that? Talk about spooky.

[DontEatRawHagis]

Hes right about people being shaped by media. After I saw the matrix I have felt unconnected from the world. THinking that its just all in my head. Kinda Freaky. Also I hope he makes more Scifi, I got so sucked into the Sprawl Trilogy I wrote a small screen play for it for fun.

[RevKeaponLaffin]

True dat. He is the God of Cyberpunk..and I will probably see that Cyberpunkish reality in my lifetime.

Now thas spooky.

I'm not a Paranoid, but for those who are;Now would be a good time to become one of the SINless

All a moot point anyhow, everyone knows the Net will become self aware before 2025-2050 tops.

[Jasonjk74]

Has anyone heard/read anything more about the film adaptation of Pattern Recognition? Or any allusions to his next novel?

[hudson]

I don't know anything about the movie, but Gibson has been posting little bits of his current writing project to his blog:

http://www.williamgibsonbooks.­com/blog/blog.asp

[oniyagi]

Gibson is not only a great writer but one of the world's greatest thinkers as well.

[briskattivo]

I love William Gibson. I heard about this documentary, have you seen it, is it good?

[hudson]

i have this documentary. i love it. gibson up close and personal expoundig his views on the coming singularity. cool editing and style from the director as well.

[bettyx1138]

u can get it on netflix