Paris Review: The Art of Fiction. 2011 interview with William Gibson
“The Bridge is a fable about counterculture, the kind of counterculture that may no longer be possible. There are no backwaters where things can breed—our connectivity is so high and so global that there are no more Seattles and no more Haight-Ashburys. We’ve arrived at a level of commodification that may have negated the concept of counterculture. I wanted to create a scenario in which I could depict something like that happening in the recognizably near future.” – on The Bridge in Virtual Light
“Having assumed that there were no longer physical backwaters in which new bohemias could spawn and be nurtured, I was intrigued by the idea and the very evident possibility that in the post-geographic Internet simply having a topic of sufficient obscurity and sufficient obsessive interest to a number of geographically diverse people could replicate the birth of a bohemia.” – on Pattern Recognition
Here be part of the new bohemia then imo..slabbb–