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Second Life avatars meet lawmakers

News Q&A: William Gibson Second Life founder Philip Rosedale and a handful of other virtual-reality experts, testified yesterday at a House of Representatives hearing that was also attended by online personas, or avatars, portrayed on a video screen in...

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[02 Apr 2008]

Editor's Blog: William Gibson fan talk

Comment Gibson told us: "If I were a smart 12-year-old picking up Neuromancer for the first time today, I'd get about 20 pages in and I'd think 'Ahhaa I've got it - what happened to all the cell phones? Making the journalist's mistake of being a fan (I...

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[06 Aug 2007]

William Gibson: Tech drives all change

News Even renowned science fiction author William Gibson has given up guessing what the future looks like - for now at least. In an exclusive interview with silicon.com, Gibson said: "The trouble is there are enough crazy factors and wild cards on the...

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[06 Aug 2007]

Photos of the month - July 2007

Photo Book publisher Penguin joined the Second Life party this month by running a series of events in the virtual world for the launch of a new novel by William Gibson. Find out more about how the publisher is making use of Second Life in our photo story.

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[27 Jul 2007]

Photos: Penguin flies into Second Life

Photo In the next few weeks publishing house Penguin is running a series of events around the launch of the new novel by the father of cyberpunk, William Gibson - such as placing containers like the one above in-world.

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[20 Jul 2007]