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DailyTech - PlayStation Home: William Gibson’s Vision Realized

This blog by Kristopher Kubicki and linked back to William Gibson’s home blog discusses the literary creator of the Internet, social networking on the Internet and virtual reality – William Gibson. While not the first to predict it, he was the first to popularize it through his fiction known as ‘cyberpunk’. His cyberpunk fiction did much to promote ideas used in such films as ‘Johnny Mnemonic’, ‘Ghost In The Shell’ and ‘The Matrix’. Kubicki blog is simple and displays a still photographic shot of Gibson’s book cover, ‘Neuromancer’. Kubrick, like Barefoot, concentrates on technology issues and it is not suprising he mentions Gibson in regard to the social and technical issues regarding the Playstation Home that promises interfaceless virtual reality in the home. Like Barefoot’s blog, Kubicki allows messages to be posted upon his blog from people who find his technological advice as interesting. The fact that Gibson has a link to Kubrick’s blog is high praise indeed from the fiction writer and would garner him many hits from the science-fiction fan and science-fact community.