It draws clear inspiration from the 90s cyberpunk boom, namely the William Gibson and Neal Stephenson vein.

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And he says his work is inspired by novelists like William Gibson and Neal Stephenson, whose cyberpunk fantasies he read while an undergrad.

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Cyberpunk star William Gibson, Neal Stephenson and a number of other writers have also taken cracks at portraying global networks replete with virtual reality.

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The writer William Gibson said that the future is already here, but not very evenly distributed, and the Internet of Things is a classic example of an unevenly silted future.

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Some alternate-history novels have envisioned a separate Texas, notably 1990's "The Difference Engine" by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling, which explores what might have happened to the world had computers been perfected in Britain a century earlier.

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Much like the often-relevant William Gibson line, the street found its own use for it, with hackers and DIYers taking the technology far beyond the applications Microsoft had in mind -- a spirit that the company itself would ultimately embrace.

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You remember the movie: Mel Gibson plays the Scotsman William Wallace, who leads his countrymen in rebellion against the English.

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So, many portfolio managers might be selling stocks with recent losses in September and October to take advantage of tax breaks, says Scott Gibson, a finance professor at the College of William and Mary who has studied the phenomenon.

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