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Transcript of William Gibson's speech to the Director's Guild to America.
Emergent technology is, by its very nature, out of control, and leads to unpredictable outcomes.... As indeed does the emergent realm of the digital. I prefer to view this not as the advent of some new and extraordinary weirdness, but as part of the ongoing manifestation of some very ancient and extraordinary weirdness: our gradual spinning of a sort of extended prosthetic mass nervous-system, out of some urge that was present around the cooking-fires of our earliest human ancestors.
Blogumentary trailer. (16megs via fimoculous)
Call me crazy, but it seems like having to reboot your phone is a step in the wrong direction.
I guess it's better than having to reboot your car though.