Re: [microsound] william gibson on remixing

[charles thorley <charlesthump@xxxxxxxxx>]

yeah, i guess you have a point.  by the time i was
exposed to the whole "cyberpunk" current (the early
nineties), most of it's exponents were kind of
obsessively technophilic, so i always found the
backstory for gibson's work to be pretty ironic.  but
yeah, what else would you type on in 1983 if you were
a broke aspiring author?


--- Steve Adam <spectro7@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> >second that - springstein and lou reed while
> banging
> >away at a *typewriter*.  neuromance et al. were
> great,
> >but hardly enough to justify the b-list pundit that
> >he's become.
> >
> 
> Then again, how many writers were banging away at a
> *word processor* 
> in the early 80's?  I can only guess it would have
> been a significant 
> minority. As for the music, well....
> 
> S.
> 
>
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