July 2011
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If you’d gone to a publisher in 1981 with a proposal for a science-fiction novel...
– William Gibson, interviewed in the Paris Review (via bowtiemoustache)
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Requiem for a Means (of Public Transport)
I will miss the old buses.
Not anytime soon, mind. Those only ones who’ll immediately fill the waves with bus “nostalgia” will be those who hadn’t had the need to wait at a bus stop for the better part of at least a handful of years. As one who still requires to use public transport myself, I’ll only miss the “trucks” - literal ex-army trucks, re-fitted for passenger carry, painted in a...