Modern Proverb: The future is already here, it's just unevenly distributed (attrib William Gibson 1995 Sept 1)

[Jonathan Lighter]

Garson, I may have mixed up two or more shorts.

Here's the right one. The quote starts at 8:44, but don't hesitate to watch
from the beginning!

http://www.poetv.com/video.php?vid=25034

JL

On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 7:48 PM, Garson O'Toole <adsgarsonotoole at gmail.com>wrote:

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> Subject:      Re: Modern Proverb: The future is already here, it's just
>              unevenly distributed (attrib William Gibson 1995 Sept 1)
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> Many thanks for finding and posting that fascinating cite, Fred. I
> have never heard the name Doug Kalish associated with the quotation.
> Spurred by your fine result I located an attribution to Gibson in
> 1994:
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> 1994 April 3, The Seattle Times, Job Opportunities Along the
> Information Superhighway by Steven Spenser, Seattle, Washington.
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> Ultimately, cyberpunk science-fiction author William Gibson may have
> the best assessment of what's going on: "The future has arrived - it's
> just not evenly distributed yet."
>
>
> Thanks to Jon for the reference to MST3K. I did find a 1998 episode
> with a short feature set at a World's Fair that includes a monorail
> ride and "futuristic" telephone features. But it is not the episode
> you mention because there are no moving sidewalks:
>
> Filmed in 1962 during the Seattle World's Fair. A promotional film for
> the Bell System circuit-switched telephone network, a trademark of
> AT&T. Directed by Robert W. Larsen.
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> http://mst3k.wikia.com/wiki/The_Space_Children
> http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1881547959631767401#
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> Garson
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> On Sun, Sep 5, 2010 at 12:26 PM, Shapiro, Fred <fred.shapiro at yale.edu>
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> > Poster:       "Shapiro, Fred" <fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU>
> > Subject:      Re: Modern Proverb: The future is already here, it's just
> >              unevenly distributed (attrib William Gibson 1995 Sept 1)
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> > "The future is already here, it's just unevenly distributed" appears
> earlier in the Courier-Mail, June 6, 1995, where it is attributed to Doug
> Kalish.
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> > Fred Shapiro
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> Garson O'Toole [adsgarsonotoole at GMAIL.COM]
> > Sent: Sunday, September 05, 2010 4:51 AM
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> > Subject: Modern Proverb: The future is already here,              it's
> just unevenly distributed (attrib William Gibson 1995 Sept 1)
> >
> > Who said "the future is here, it’s just not evenly distributed"?
> >
> > These are the words of a questioner at the Quotes Uncovered:
> > Freakonomics website in September 2009.
> > ...
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