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minds. This week, Tisneem Raja, who's the interactive editor at Mother Jones, sat down with

William Gibson, the sci-fi author who coined the term cyberspace and whose debut novel,

Neuromancer, is a cult classic, said to have paved the way for awesome films like Tron and

The Matrix and many others. His new novel, The Peripheral, will be released next week. When Tasneem

asked Gibson what he would like to know about the future, here's what he had to say.

I would want to see something from the future looking at how the future thinks about us, not what they're doing

but what they think about us in the way of like what we think about the Victorians today because what we think about the

Victorians is nothing like what the Victorians thought about themselves they

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