I like the way William Gibson writes and I like the way he seems to think, or at least the way presented through what he writes, about the present and the past and the future, about technology and culture and society. These are short, mostly sharp essays. One is flabby and too long, one is a rerun of another, which Gibson does draw attention to in his little afterwords. They're all really good about expressing the confluence of various impulses at any given moment in the world and hazarding some careful thoughts about where they will go next.