Those Canadian sci-fi revolutionaries

*Some pretty good stuff here, even if it's, uh, really really Canadian.

http://academicalism.wordpress.com/cc-research-work-in-progress/the-copyfight-science-fiction-and-social-media/

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"Gibson’s work has moved from far-future scenes of plugged-in and razor-fingered cyborgs, to near-future scenes of virtual celebrities walking around in public as holograms, to present-day scenes of WiFi-projected art installations and a message-board cult following an anonymous digital film whose contextual clues have been entirely edited out...."

(((Having seen some message-board cults, I'm inclined to consider them lots more out-there than razor-fingered cyborgs. And Canadian science fiction writers getting senselessly walloped by American border guards – who would have imagined that?)))