Tootfinder

Plastics
“And these guys were very common,” [Gibson] went on, taking down a small plastic spaceman:
red, wearing an elaborately earmuffed helmet with an antenna on top.
“These spacemen were dime-store toys at a time
 — which I can actually remember! 
— when cheap plastics were still weirdly novel.
Like Gore-Tex or something.
You’d ask, ‘What is it made of?’ ”
He looked wistful, then thoughtful.
“I’ve decided that one of the most signif…

How William Gibson Keeps His Science Fiction Real
Midway through his career, the inventor of “cyberspace” turned his attention to the strange new world of the present, Joshua Rothman writes.

Corporate platforms – Google, Meta, Amazon – that now dominate digital life
are far closer to William Gibson's original vision than to the participatory web that briefly flourished between them.
Gibson imagined cyberspace as a space of corporate dominance from the start;
Silicon Valley built the open internet first,
-- then converged on his dystopia anyway.
The difference is that, in Neuromancer, that convergence was the disaster to be resisted.
T…

Interesting to compare the author Neal Stephenson's profiles on X/twitter vs. Bluesky.
He has 89,4 K followers on X, where he still posts, but just under 10 K on Bluesky, where he doesn't post at all.
He has many fans on the fediverse who discuss his books, but he is not here.

This is a subtle and profound thought, – RT'd by William Gibson on Bsky: