Wednesday, June 04, 2014
Ahead
One more viewing of the William Gibson documentary.
No Maps for These Territories (2000)
When he made this film he was looking out at ten years or so. It is now beyond that and, of course, some of the stuff has not happened. Yet.
But it is an illuminating talk with a fine thinker. The author of a few great books on our times and the person who coined the word "cyberspace". Meaning the life that is in the computer. Separate from the three dimensional world we inhabit outside it. Separate or not so separate and certainly equal.
I just figure that he is bang on period and it is a good think piece.
The film is an interview conducted as Gibson rides in the back seat of a car on the road to somewhere we don't arrive at. Nice metaphor.
This is one of our time's wise men and well worth a visit. Why I look at this DVD every year or two. It always hits the spot.
