September 2, 2008 by Node Magazine.

Thanks so much for the recent comments, encouragement and support.

Things have been relatively quite in Spook Country the past few weeks. And yet,just beyond the bright lights of the political convention, secrets lie. Tito sees some; Brown sees others and the old man waits.

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August 9, 2008 by Node Magazine.

Locative art described in Spook Country is really a version of “augmented reality, “a CG-based technology that is evolving from a static visual representation of data in virtual reality to one that responds to a user in real time. Much of the work of movie special effects can be considered a form of Augmented Reality” [via Wired.com]:

Augmented Reality projects have most recently focused on war games, but a new lab at the Mawson Institute for Advanced Manufacturing will bring this tech closer to home. More specifically, it should jump to the car showrooms of America within years, ultimately leading AR systems to become compelling presentation programs.

The University of South Australia’s Wearable Computer Lab is building the 100-sq.meter AR visualization center to improve AR quality and serve as a ‘magic box’ for related visual technologies. It will include forty projector systems, two wearable VR-style systems, and a control room that will track the movements of multiple users.

The space is built large enough to fit large artifacts (like cars), so that visual cues can be projected onto a physical item or realized in virtuality through embedded-display glasses. 

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August 3, 2008 by Node Magazine.

According to an email from Wikirage today, Node Magazine is one of “the pages in Wikipedia which are receiving the most edits per unique editor over various periods of time.” Freaky.

Just for clarification, I neither set up nor have contributed to the Wikipedia entry on Node Magazine [although I am tremendously grateful to those who have].

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August 3, 2008 by Node Magazine.

For some unknown reason, this amazing article by Memetic Engineer popped up today in my rss search feed. It’s an excellent example of what ME is capable of at any given moment.

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August 1, 2008 by Node Magazine.

One step closer to the Neuromancer movie [via io9.com]…

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July 17, 2008 by Node Magazine.

Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with William Gibson, author of the books “Neuromancer” and “Spook Country,” about where we are headed in this post-internet age [via IT Conversations]

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June 12, 2008 by Node Magazine.

Cool i09 interview with William Gibson re: Godzilla, draft-dodging and the novel he has always wanted to write [thanks to grave_danger1969].

In Spook Country, old ideologies hang around and shape the initial phases of a longterm change that it will never be able to keep up with. The digital realm is inherently porous. These days we’re all coming to the attention of the authorities as a matter of course. But the really new thing is that the authorities are coming to our attention. It’s more difficult for authorities to keep their secrets. it’s working both ways. We live in the era of the leak, the document that doesn’t get wiped off the hard drive. That drive you thought was wiped shows up in a pawn shop in Vegas. It’s equally porous in both directions. But individuals have a better chance of applying transparency to their lives and transactions on the internet than states and corporations do. If we continue in this direction, I believe people in the future will wield unimaginable tools of forensic transparency — and they’ll aim them back at history. They’ll find out about what every major player did all the way back with tools we can’t imagine today. There will be no more lost cities.

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May 30, 2008 by Node Magazine.

The official word on the 2008 Book Tour to support the paperback version of Spook Country [williamgibsonboard]:

Tuesday, June 3 6:45 PM arrival; 7:00 PM to 8:00 PM PST Reading/Q&A/Signing UNIVERSITY BOOKSTORE 4326 University Way NE Seattle, WA 98105 www.bookstore.washington.edu
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Wednesday, June 4 6:15 PM arrival / 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM PSTReading/Q&A/Signing BARNES & NOBLE #226212000 SE 82nd AvePortland, OR 97266503-786-3464_______________________________________________________________________SAN FRANCISCO, CAMonday, June 96:45 PM arrival7:00 PM to 8:00 PM PSTReading/Signing BORDERS BOOKS & MUSIC #57400 Post StreetSan Francisco, CA 94102415-399-1633_______________________________________________________________________SAN FRANCISCO, CATuesday, June 107:15 PM arrival7:30 PM to 8:30 PM PSTReading/Signing CAPITOLA BOOK CAFE1475 41st Ave.Capitola, CA 95010831-462-4415 http://www.capitolabookcafe.com/_______________________________________________________________________AUSTIN, TXWednesday, June 117:15 PM arrival7:30 PM to 8:30 PM CSTDiscussion/Signing BARNES & NOBLE #253610000 Research Blvd., #158Austin, TX 78759(512) 418-8985 _______________________________________________________________________DAYTON, OHThursday, June 126:45 PM arrival7:00 PM to 8:00 PM ESTReading/Signing BOOKS & COMPANY @ The Greene4453 Walnut St.Beavercreek, OH 45440937-429-6302www.booksandco.com_______________________________________________________________________LEXINGTON, KYFriday, June 136:45 PM arrival7:00 PM Reading/Q&A/Signing JOSEPH-BETH 161 Lexington Green Circle, Ste. B1Lexington, KY 40503859-271-5330 _______________________________________________________________________PHILADELPHIA, PASaturday, June 141:45 PM arrival2:00 PM to 3:00 PM ESTReading/Q&A/Signing BARNES & NOBLE #26463535 US Route 1Princeton, NJ 05840609-897-9250_______________________________________________________________________NEW YORK, NYSunday, June 166:45 PM arrival7:00 PM to 8:00 PM ESTUpstairs at the Square with Martha Wainwright! BARNES & NOBLE #267533 East 17th StNew York, NY 10003212-253-0810 _______________________________________________________________________BOSTON, MATuesday, June 1712:45 PM arrival1:00 PM to 2:00 PM ESTReading/Signing BORDERS BOOKS & MUSIC #12010-24 School St.Boston, MA 02108617-557-7188

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May 25, 2008 by Node Magazine.

Gibson has a great eye for obscure, yet fashionable tech. If you read Pattern Recognition and wondered what it would be like to own a Curta mechanical calculator, check out Jan Meyer’s virtual Curta simulator [by way of Karlin Lillington]. 

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January 9, 2008 by Node Magazine.

Will Hayden Christensen [Anakin Skywalker in Star Wars: Episodes 2-3] play Case, the protaganist in Joseph Kahn’s $70M movie adaption of William Gibson’s cyberpunk genre-inspiring Neuromancer? JoBlo says so.

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