William Gibson - Future Quotes

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We have no future because our present is too volatile. We have only risk management. The spinning of the given moment's scenarios. Pattern recognition.

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The future is there," Cayce hears herself say, "looking back at us. Trying to make sense of the fiction we will have become. And from where they are, the past behind us will look nothing at all like the past we imagine behind us now.

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The past is past, the future unformed. There is only the moment, and that is where he prefers to be.

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The future is already here — it's just not very evenly distributed.

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The old futures have a way of hanging around... I think now that everyone sort of knows that the real future is going to be cluttered with all the same junk we have today, except it will be old and beat up and there will be more of it.

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