I like William Gibson’s conception of artists. He’s an artist, which means he collects and refines ideas over time, and has a gift for organizing his language to maximal effect. Put another way, he chooses his words carefully, and he chooses the contexts in which they will have most impact.
That’s so true ! I am crazy of those words he used : the grid, hypermesh…” The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel”, and I hate the way marketing teams re-used those terms… The word cyberpunk turns to be a trendy hiptop fucking word that refers to nothing more than morons. AT the origini it referred to way more noble and poetic (new romancer = neuromancer) ideas…