{"id":1528,"date":"2005-07-06T07:54:41","date_gmt":"2005-07-06T07:54:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=1528"},"modified":"2005-07-06T07:54:41","modified_gmt":"2005-07-06T07:54:41","slug":"william_gibson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=1528","title":{"rendered":"William Gibson: Who Owns the Words?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/wired\/archive\/13.07\/gibson.html\">William Gibson<\/a>:<Blockquote><i>We seldom legislate new technologies into being. They emerge, and we plunge with them into whatever vortices of change they generate. We legislate after the fact, in a perpetual game of catch-up, as best we can, while our new technologies redefine us &#8211; as surely and perhaps as terribly as we&#8217;ve been redefined by broadcast television.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Who owns the words?&#8221; asked a disembodied but very persistent voice throughout much of Burroughs&#8217; work. Who does own them now? Who owns the music and the rest of our culture? We do. All of us.<\/p>\n<p>Though not all of us know it &#8211; yet.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>William Gibson:We seldom legislate new technologies into being. They emerge, and we plunge with them into whatever vortices of change they generate. We legislate after the fact, in a perpetual game of catch-up, as best we can, while our new technologies redefine us &#8211; as surely and perhaps as terribly as we&#8217;ve been redefined by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1528"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1528\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}