Sterling, Stross and now Gibson, in the space of a few days. Excellent interview and he's always good value. How about this for example; Sound familiar in 2011?
It was 1967, and the world was in the middle of some sort of secular millenarian convulsion. Young people thought everything would change in some Rapture-like way. Nobody knew what it was going to be like, but everybody knew that pretty soon everything would be different.