Gibson shaped my thinking very deeply, from a young age (13 maybe? I’m 38 now). When I was in college, I wrote a paper for an independent study (maybe 98 or 99?) where I talked about a period we were soon approaching I termed “The Post-Historic Age.” My argument was one more about how such rapid, constant change would lead to a lack of an ability for history to be “locked-in” to the cultural memory. I don’t think I hit on the encryption and surveillance state aspect of post-history in my paper, but of course it makes sense that those trends would also contribute to this state.
I freaking love you, William Gibson! 
