Gibson on the google-effect on culture: "Everything is hyperlinked now."

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Amazon.com Bookstore's Blog: interview with William Gibson on his upcoming Spook Country

Amazon.com: Did you feel obligated to change it?

Gibson: In some cases. The Vancouver stuff is less one-on-one than the Manhattan stuff, for instance. The places, the restaurants are in different neighborhoods, things like that. The New York stuff I somehow stuck closer to the real thing. The New York stuff is more googleable.

Amazon.com: Yeah, everybody knows New York, every inch of it.

Gibson: You can google it at a higher resolution.

Comments

[patternhunter.myopenid.com (from livejournal.com)]

Hi, enjoyed your blog post re: William Gibson. I am a big fan too and have followed his work very closely for years.

If you are interested, I am posting chapter summaries of Spook Country at http://node.tumblr.com. There are definitely tons of spoilers, maps and pictures of key locations in the real Spook Country, and links to related topics. You might also want to check out Memetic Engineer’s Spook Country website [http://www.spookcountry.co.uk/] with a UK angle on the book.

- sean [patternhunter]