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Anything threatening to be a subculture is commodified before it can walk (2014)
William Gibson offers a future where technology has enabled a socially-cleansed London. Gibson's earlier prescience has Justin McGuirk a little worried.
Henry – and, by definition, Gibson – is constantly noticing Philippe Starck interiors, different models of Adidas trainer, Volkswagen dashboards and Aeron chairs bought off failed startups, ever in search of their underlying semiotics. The route to this future of virtual presence and physical avatars is being mapped nowInevitably, in the latest book, The Peripheral, our unbridled materialism yields what we fear – climate-driven apocalypse. Selfridges is briefly a single residence and Oxford Street, long abandoned, has been turned into an artificial forest not unlike Joanna Lumley and Thomas Heatherwick's Garden Bridge proposal.
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