William Gibson on Japan’s technoculture
Gibson zeroes in on the Japanese womblesque tendency to deconstruct technology and reassemble subcultures around it
“The Japanese are the ultimate Early Adaptors, and the sort of fiction
I write behoves me to pay serious heed to that. If you believe, as I
do, that all cultural change is essentially technologically driven, you
pay attention to the Japanese.”
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