The biodiversity of pop culture is really, really in danger. In 1977, it took about eight months for the recommodification machine to put punk in the window of Holt Renfrew. It's gotten faster ever since. There's no grace period. The construct of William Gibson the Writer is coming down, becoming more open.
Transparency is what it is.
I think that I've always written about things that are very personal, but initially, I coded everything. I buried everything under layers and layers and layers of code, but the signifiers of my emotionality were there for me. I knew where the magnets were, behind the gyprock, and the magnets were very powerful. I think they had to be powerful for me, otherwise the reader wouldn't have a reciprocal experience. But I was very careful to bury them deeply, deeply in the plaster and paint over them.