The Father of Cyberpunk Tries Google Glass

If there's any piece of emerging technology that most closely resembles the cyberpunk imaginings of science-fiction writers, it's Google Glass. The product achieved a notable symbolic milestone this week when the creator of the cyberpunk genre, William Gibson, finally donned the futuristic gadget.

Gibson was headlining an event at the New York Public Library when an audience member offered to have the Neuromancer author wear it. Gibson, wearing a black shirt and jacket along with the austere headset, looks like he'd fit right in as a character in any one of many cyberpunk-inspired worlds that his novel helped create. Read more...