William Gibson, one of science fiction's most visionary and distinctive voices, maintains that he and his fellow writers don't possess some mystical ability to peer into the future. "We're almost always wrong," said Gibson in a phone interview with Wired. Gibson coined the term cyberspace in his 1982 short story "Burning Chrome" and expanded on the concept in his 1984 debut novel, Neuromancer. Par
![William Gibson on Why Sci-Fi Writers Are (Thankfully) Almost Always Wrong](https://cdn-ak-scissors.b.st-hatena.com/image/square/dc86bd795a48377caa4c546728f5b1d47a0f47ac/height=288;version=1;width=512/https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.wired.com%2Fphotos%2F5932aa724dc9b45ccec5f7de%2F191%3A100%2Fw_1280%2Cc_limit%2FWilliam-Gibson01.jpg)