No Maps for These Territories
2000 · 89 MIN · IMDB 6.9 · 378 VOTES · DIR. Mark Neale
Overview
On an overcast morning in 1999, William Gibson, father of cyberpunk and author of the cult-classic novel Neuromancer, stepped into a limousine and set off on a road trip around North America. The limo was rigged with digital cameras, a computer, a television, a stereo, and a cell phone. Generated entirely by this four-wheeled media machine, No Maps for These Territories is both an account of Gibson’s life and work and a commentary on the world outside the car windows. Here, the man who coined the word "cyberspace" offers a unique perspective on Western culture at the edge of the new millennium, and in the throes of convulsive, tech-driven change.
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00:01:32 Bill? Are you there?
00:05:05 the extent to which they've been interpenetrated and co-opted by their technology
00:08:57 and the test pattern itself was only available briefly, at scheduled times.
00:12:59 And I think that, in some very real way, it's a country that we cannot find our way back to.
00:17:15 It's that "truth-is-stranger-than-fiction" factor keeps getting jacked up on us
00:21:18 Then the whore's giggle rang out, tinged with a certain hysteria.
00:24:43 You know I sat there thinking, “Nobody’s ever done this.”
00:27:34 and it was what I had grown up on.
00:31:11 There was too much clinical depression. There was too much suicide.
00:33:57 My experience has been that, beyond a certain point, there’s only pathology.
00:37:34 …Army Jeep of some kind
00:40:51 I’m not a didactic writer, I hope.
00:44:20 What’s going to save the rest of us?
00:47:02 Like, what does that…what does that convey?
00:49:49 to start to write fiction, was to rediscover the mechanism of “daydreaming-as-play,”
00:52:48 that I actually developed an early form, in my fiction, a sort of early form of imaginary
00:56:24 I had no idea.
00:59:35 They just, uh, took it as something very, very real.
01:03:08 I've sort of been looking at, you know, where this whole crazy thing came from. All these cities...
01:06:57 I'm more and more...more and more conscious
01:10:13 Because this is an act that began somewhere with someone making a mark on a piece of wood
01:13:56 marching across the United States.
01:17:56 as...as we know it. And that is an unplanned impact of technology.
01:21:27 see it from without? Which we can't because we are...we are it.