Tuesday, January 15, 2013

Gibson on deluge of information/paranoia

With overtones of the Sandy  Hook conspiracy theory insanity, whereby any media event is turned into a faked moon landing because there is simply so much data to examine and rewrite:

We’ve all got infinitely more soil for paranoia than we previously had before. But I don’t think it necessarily means we are more prone to grow it. But if we are prone to grow it, we could grow it more quickly and lavishly than we could when we only had a few newspapers and monthly magazines to act as fertilizer.

http://www.wired.com/underwire/2010/09/william-gibson-interview/2/