Tuesday open thread: William Gibson on Technology, Science Fiction, and the Apocalypse

Well, yesterday I achieved some sort of Twitter cool cred. One of my tweets—about the New York Times hiring a hack from the Intercept to head its opinion page—got retweeted by none other than the Godfather of Cyberpunk, William Gibson. We cut to footage of me reacting to this:

As today is another busy day for me, I'm posting this talk he gave on, yes, technology, science fiction, and the apocalypse. Subjects worthy for our dystopian times.

Hang tough, friends. This is your open thread.