William Gibson on LiveJournal.
Interviewer: How do you think computer media are affecting our unconscious minds? Do you think that affects people’s creativity for either good or bad?
William Gibson: It must be having amazing effects on younger people, and I’m sure that it’s having amazing effects on me, I’m just not sure what they are. Think of the people on, say, something like LiveJournal, who are totally exposing themselves to their friends, who are like 22 years old, and they don’t know any different, and where is that going to go? Where is that going to go when those people start writing more novels? It’s going to be different.
Discover, August '07 issue, entire article here.
(Except for the seemingly implicit narrowness of the demographic, I kind of like where he's going with this.)
William Gibson: It must be having amazing effects on younger people, and I’m sure that it’s having amazing effects on me, I’m just not sure what they are. Think of the people on, say, something like LiveJournal, who are totally exposing themselves to their friends, who are like 22 years old, and they don’t know any different, and where is that going to go? Where is that going to go when those people start writing more novels? It’s going to be different.
Discover, August '07 issue, entire article here.
(Except for the seemingly implicit narrowness of the demographic, I kind of like where he's going with this.)