An interview with William Gibson

It requires quite a bit of imaginative effort on my part to get a sense of what that must be like. But today’s strangeness, while only a few mouse-clicks away from anyone, becomes difficult to find because it has to occur to you to Google it. You may be able to Google everything, but the trick is figuring what you need to Google. Given the near-infinite amount of stuff out there, there’s a huge mass of the overall content that none of us will ever see. You could spend your entire lifetime trying to look through all that stuff. It isn’t as though there’s no less-trod path. It’s simply a matter of figuring out where it is. There are an infinite number of universes of stuff that you can access, but most of us will never see that much of it. So I think people can still find genuinely strange things that no one else they know has ever considered.