"In the ’70s and ’80s, we were transitioning over to something really new, so that was an interesting time for me to go into full projective science-fiction mode, and build models of where we were going. Now we’re kind of there, but we’re not clearly transitioning into some next thing that will be as distinct from where we are today, as where we are today is from the ’70s and ’80s, if that makes any sense. If I woke up one day and saw something that indicated to me that we were clearly headed off to as big a shift as instantaneous global computing for everybody, I would sit down and write something about it." -- William Gibson