Science fiction writer William Gibson on the alleged threat of future CO2-induced bad weather: "I assume that we live in the first era in human history against which all posterity will have reason to hold a sad and bitter grudge"

William Gibson explains why global warming will make your grandkids hate you | Grist

Science fiction author William Gibson, who knows from the future (he’s the guy who invented the word “cyberspace,” in 1982 mind you), explained yesterday on Twitter that he’s concerned our descendants will hate us...It’s clear that climate change isn’t one of Gibson’s usual talking points (he got a bit of a shaky start, fishing for the word “anthropogenic”). He’s concerned not because he’s a soapboxer, but because he’s a thoughtful, intelligent person with an interest in how humanity will think and act in years to come.

Twitter / GreatDismal [Gibson]: I assume that we live in t ...

I assume that we live in the first era in human history against which all posterity will have reason to hold a sad and bitter grudge.

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The horrors of the Dark Ages don't irreversibly diminish and constrain the daily possibilities of all of our lives.

William Gibson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

After his mother's death when he was eighteen,[23] Gibson left school without graduating and became very isolated for a long time, traveling to California and Europe and immersing himself in the counterculture.[18][21][26] In 1967, he elected to move to Canada in order "to avoid the Vietnam war draft".[20][26] At his draft hearing, he honestly informed interviewers that his intention in life was to sample every mind-altering substance in existence.[29]
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After weeks of nominal homelessness, Gibson was hired as the manager of Toronto's first head shop, a retailer of drug paraphernalia