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    William Gibson Says Today's Internet Is Nothing Like What He Envisioned

    Gibson's latest is Agency — set in a future where climate change has mostly wiped out humanity. The cyberpunk godfather says today's online world is "utterly banal" compared to his original vision.
    by Tom Vitale Mar 19, 2020 2 minutes
    Source: Michael O'Shea

    William Gibson writes visionary stories — in his early work, he imagined an information superhighway long before the Web existed. But in a dozen novels over the last 35 years, Gibson has stalked closer and closer to the present.

    His latest, , has a complicated plot that jumps between the far future and the immediate present; Gibson says his favorite type of science fiction requires time and

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