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I was just recalling the Gibson book signing last week. The reading from Pattern Recognition was not particularly inspiring, but the Q&A session which followed was quite entertaining. At one point, a member of the audience asked the writer’s opinion regarding the extent to which terrorism might affect the Internet. Gibson said he was not very knowledgeable about technology but quoted from a colleague that the SQL Slammer worm had reached global saturation in ten minutes. When asked if he knew what that meant, Gibson grinned and admitted he had no idea. The audience burst into laughter.

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