William Gibson coaxes the future out of the present

He coined the word ‘cyberspace’ and he’s called a futurist but that’s not what William Gibson is. What he does, he says, is look for ‘hits of novelty’ that he can re-imagine and incorporate into his speculative fiction. – Wikimedia Commons

Neuromancer author discusses his latest book and how he creates the future.

“I wanted buzzwords,” William Gibson says of his early writing ambitions. “I wanted buzz-neologisms, really.” He scored with “cyberspace”, the term he coined in a short story and popularized in his 1984 novel Neuromancer, to describe, well – never mind, you know what cyberspace is.