William Gibson
Nacimiento : 1948-03-17, Conway, South Carolina, United States of America
Historia
William Ford Gibson is an American and Canadian speculative fiction writer and essayist widely credited with pioneering the science fiction subgenre known as cyberpunk. Beginning his writing career in the late 1970s, his early works were bleak, noir, near-future stories that explored the effects of technology, cybernetics, and computer networks on humans—a "combination of lowlife and high tech"—and helped to create an iconography for the information age before the ubiquity of the Internet in the 1990s.
Himself (archive)
Let's take a journey back to the 1980s and beyond, to discover the origins of the Cyberpunk movement, in literature, cinema, television, video games, comics and more! In this documentary miniseries, we will discover the wonders of Cyberpunk, dating back to the 1940s, all the way through 1989, with each successive episode taking on a new decade.
Philosopher
A young woman loses her umbrella in a café altering her perception of the world forever.
Himself
On an overcast morning in 1999, William Gibson, father of cyberpunk and author of the cult-classic novel Neuromancer, stepped into a limousine and set off on a road trip around North America. The limo was rigged with digital cameras, a computer, a television, a stereo, and a cell phone. Generated entirely by this four-wheeled media machine, No Maps for These Territories is both an account of Gibson’s life and work and a commentary on the world outside the car windows. Here, the man who coined the word "cyberspace" offers a unique perspective on Western culture at the edge of the new millennium, and in the throes of convulsive, tech-driven change.
Short Story
Ambientada en un futuro no muy lejano. A Horoshi, un brillante ingeniero genético japonés, se lo disputan dos importantes empresas, la japonesa Hosaka y la alemana Maas. Los revolucionarios descubrimientos del científico tienen el poder de transformar el mundo y generar beneficios billonarios. Hosaka contrata a dos espías, X y Fox, que deben ganarse la confianza de Hiroshi en perjuicio de Maas. La estrategia de los dos mercenarios consiste en atraer a Hiroshi utilizando los encantos de una joven y bella prostituta.
Screenplay
Johnny, un joven del siglo XXI con chips implantados, se gana la vida transportando datos valiosos que almacena en su cerebro. Dos científicos lo contratan para que haga de mensajero de una información robada. Demasiado material para su capacidad de almacenaje, pero Johnny no duda en inyectarse una ampliación de memoria y cumplir con el encargo. Sin embargo, debe acabar el trabajo y deshacerse de ese material si no quiere morir a causa de la sobrecarga. La vida se le complica cuando una organización criminal desea hacerse con la información o, lo que es lo mismo, con su cabeza.
Short Story
Johnny, un joven del siglo XXI con chips implantados, se gana la vida transportando datos valiosos que almacena en su cerebro. Dos científicos lo contratan para que haga de mensajero de una información robada. Demasiado material para su capacidad de almacenaje, pero Johnny no duda en inyectarse una ampliación de memoria y cumplir con el encargo. Sin embargo, debe acabar el trabajo y deshacerse de ese material si no quiere morir a causa de la sobrecarga. La vida se le complica cuando una organización criminal desea hacerse con la información o, lo que es lo mismo, con su cabeza.
Himself
Dennis Potter, Esther Dyson, William Gibson and other techno-thinkers appeared in this award-winning three-part documentary series which examined social changes brought about by new information technologies, along with other issues and dilemmas facing society in the 21st Century.
Story
A photographer hired to shoot photos of "futuristic Americana" starts having visions of an alternate reality that looks like the covers of pulp science fiction novels. An adaption of William Gibson's short story 'The Gernsback Continuum' for Channel 4.
Himself
Stylistic documentary about the cyberpunk movement. William Gibson, author of cyberpunk classic Neuromancer, and Timothy Leary, famous advocate of psychedelic drugs, share their thoughts on the future of society and technology.
Himself
Interviews with personalities including John Mellencamp, Spike Lee, Lou Reed, Roseanne Barr, David Byrne, George Michael and more, as they reflect on the 1980s.
Novel
Adaptation of the cyberpunk classic. The Matrix is a world within the world, a global consensus- hallucination, the representation of every byte of data in cyberspace . . . Case had been the sharpest data-thief in the business, until vengeful former employers crippled his nervous system. But now a new and very mysterious employer recruits him for a last-chance run. The target: an unthinkably powerful artificial intelligence orbiting Earth in service of the sinister Tessier-Ashpool business clan. With a dead man riding shotgun and Molly, mirror-eyed street-samurai, to watch his back, Case embarks on an adventure that ups the ante on an entire genre of fiction.
