“The NET is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.”

Name of an article http://www.voidspace.org.uk/cyberpunk/gibson_wasteoftime.shtml he wrote for New York Times Magazine (14 July 1996)

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American-Canadian speculative fiction novelist and founder … 1948

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