{"id":33,"date":"2004-02-16T20:28:10","date_gmt":"2004-02-16T20:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=33"},"modified":"2004-02-16T20:28:10","modified_gmt":"2004-02-16T20:28:10","slug":"william_gibsons_pattern_recognition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=33","title":{"rendered":"William Gibson’s Pattern Recognition"},"content":{"rendered":"

William J. Wineke writes<\/a>:
\nWilliam Gibson<\/a> is credited with inventing the term “cyberspace” two decades ago and imagining a system he called the “Matrix” long before Al Gore “invented” the Internet. <\nHe forecast the development of the digital world in his book \"Neuromancer<\/a>,” published in 1984, which won the Hugo, Nebula and Philip K. Dick awards for science-fiction writing. No fiction writer in the land is more associated in the public mind with the digital world than is Gibson. <\nHis latest book, just released in paperback, is \"Pattern Recognition<\/a>” (Berkley: $14). It tells of Cayce Pollard, a market researcher who spends her time trying to recognize cultural and social patterns corporations can turn into cash. She becomes intrigued with a series of anonymous Internet video clips that have become an underground sensation.
\nPattern Recognition is an excellent book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

William J. Wineke writes: William Gibson is credited with inventing the term “cyberspace” two decades ago and imagining a system he called the “Matrix” long before Al Gore “invented” the Internet. < He forecast the development of the digital world in his book \"Neuromancer,” published in 1984, which won the Hugo, Nebula and Philip K. […]\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}