Tuesday, August 17, 2010

Day 228: Count Zero by William Gibson


William Gibson wrote a number of popular science fiction books including Pattern Recognition. When people ask me what my dream job would be I usually tell them I want to be like Cayce, the main character. She has a psychological sensitivity to logos and branding - essentially she is allergic to bad branding. People paid her gobs of money to look at their logo and then she'd reject or accept them without ceremony. I can't tell you how many times I've seen advertising that I wish they'd run by me.

Status: Dibbed

4 comments :

  1. I think you're right, do you want it back?

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  2. (Any readers should be aware that he loaned it to me approximately ten years ago)

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  3. Oh, no, please pass it on. My library is already to big for me to haul around every time I move. . .

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