Book Review - Zero History - By William Gibson - NYTimes.com

Book Review - Zero History - By William Gibson - NYTimes.com: "When I was a teenager, I used to play records and imagine that, because of probability and the fact that the world was so vast, some other teenager on the other side of the globe was listening to the same thing at the same time. Then the Internet came along and disillusioned me. It wasn’t so much that the Web created a “global village,” but it did make the world seem a lot smaller: it became obvious that some things just didn’t exist, and that there were thousands of phrases that no one was tweeting or Googling. No one was necessarily listening to the same record as I was. One of the great things Gibson does is put some romance back into the digital world."