Japan lives in the future; it has lived there for a century. Hot-wired by repeated onslaughts of technologically driven change, temporally dislocated, deeply traditional yet subject to permutation without notice, we all, today, must to some extent feel ourselves to be warped, alien, disfigured. The Japanese have simply had a head start.
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| — | William Gibson on how Japan became “the favored default setting for so many cyberpunk writers”. (via dailymeh) |
