The Setup: William Gibson

Technology is a means to an end. Once you can reach the end with the tech that you have there is no need to upgrade any further.<p>Upgrading is an investment in both time and funds, both can be spent better if you are already able to do what you want to do.<p>Most of us could get through the day just fine on a 486/33 if we had to. In fact, we'd probably write better software if we did.

"I haven’t bought an app for about a year. Neither hardware nor software excite me very much, after whatever brief (and usually painful) novelty has worn off."<p>It's probably because I'm so immersed in tech stuff at work, but it's hard for me to understand how such an imaginative science fiction author can be so... <i>indifferent</i> about the technology he uses.

Gibson just tweeted a perfect postscript to this interview:<p><i>Gizmos bore me. People doing the weird unexpected things they do with gizmos fascinates me.</i><p><a href="https://mobile.twitter.com/#!/greatdismal/status/126155241723928576" rel="nofollow">https://mobile.twitter.com/#!/greatdismal/status/12615524172...</a>

Gibson fetishizes technology (apple products in particular) so much in his books that I'm surprised he's so blasé about the shiny new in real life. Weird.

I really hope someone has set him up with an offsite automatic backup system, plus maybe some versioned local storage.

I am somewhat disappointed that he didn't say he'd goosed his Mac's performance with "3MB of hot RAM." Oh well.

<p><pre><code> I just want to write, or do whatever else I’m doing, and not have to think about whatever I’m doing it on. </code></pre> I'd love to know what he would think of <a href="http://www.iawriter.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.iawriter.com/</a>

I'm pretty sure a four year old Macbook Pro would weigh more than two pounds.

His <i>retweet</i> feed is really entertaining, very diverse and unboring, highly recommended - <a href="http://twitter.com/greatdismal" rel="nofollow">http://twitter.com/greatdismal</a>

&#62; It’s the WiFi, no cellular to worry about<p>A palpable hit. Gibson was talking about the tablet, but I suspect there may be quite a few (Wi-Fi enabled) phones out there without data plans.

Wow these are getting pretty boring...