{"id":269,"date":"2006-06-02T07:53:58","date_gmt":"2006-06-02T07:53:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=269"},"modified":"2006-06-02T07:53:58","modified_gmt":"2006-06-02T07:53:58","slug":"gibsonian-take-on-sn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=269","title":{"rendered":"Gibsonian take on S\/N"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have a lifelong habit of bing[e]ing on authors, reading everything if I&#8217;ve found some unique voice in something they&#8217;ve written, and then rereading the especially choice bits again and again. William Gibson has been one of those authors for more than 20 years, and this fragment from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.williamgibsonbooks.com\/blog\/2006_06_01_archive.asp#114922706834176317\">William Gibson&#8217;s blog<\/a> is pretty tantalizing and suggests that he&#8217;s still at it:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Organized religion, he saw, back in the day, had been purely a signal-to-noise proposition, at once the medium and the message, a one-channel universe. For Europe, that channel was Christian, and broadcasting from Rome, but <b>nothing could be broadcast faster than a man could travel on horseback<\/b>. There was a hierarchy in place, and a highly organized methodology of top-down signal-dissemination, but the time lag enforced by tech-lack imposed a near-disastrous ratio, <b>the noise of heresy constantly threatening to overwhelm the signal.<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a lifelong habit of bing[e]ing on authors, reading everything if I&#8217;ve found some unique voice in something they&#8217;ve written, and then rereading the especially choice bits again and again. William Gibson has been one of those authors for more than 20 years, and this fragment from William Gibson&#8217;s blog is pretty tantalizing and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}