Science fiction writer William Gibson is to use the dream of a Hillary Clinton win in last year’s US presidential election as the launch point for his next novel. Gibson, who coined the word “cyberspace” in his 1984 debut Neuromancer, will reimagine the world under a Clinton presidency in his next novel Agency, as well as London in the distant future. In the present-day strand of Gibson’s story, a shadowy military organisation develops and tests artificial intelligence on a young woman named Verity. It’s a raggedy-ass world, that way.”Gibson-watchers will be looking closely at his latest vision of humanity’s future. I don’t watch them; I watch how people behave around them.”

Source: The Guardian April 26, 2017 14:26 UTC