The Committee to Nuke Elysium

Clothes just haven’t evolved fast enough to cope with the stuff we have to carry these days. Those large, technologically oriented gentlemen you sometimes see in fishing vests are trying to solve that problem. But they don’t look cool. There must be a stylish way to have many pockets – tactical practicality – without looking like you’re pretending to be an assassin.

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These two thoughts seized me because I’d found it very hard, all evening, not to spend the whole time wondering where he’d [Gibson] got his jacket with the cool pen pockets on the forearm. And made me think that wheras his novels used to be manuals for building the future they’re now very stylish, extended product catalogues. Like Noir LL Bean. (Though that felt wrong – they’re much better than that.)