Adobe's Bill McCoy: "The Future Is Here."

[Steven Lyle Jordan]

Calvin Reid's article for Publishers Weekly is a good summation of the International Digital Publishing Forum’s annual e-publishing conference in New York. Notable are Adobe System's Bill McCoy's comments:

"The future is here," said Adobe System’s Bill McCoy, borrowing a phrase of computer book publisher Tim O’Reilly, "but it’s unevenly distributed." McCoy’s point was that all publishers acknowledge the promise of digital distribution—they’re just waiting for the "digital tipping point," a device, new software, or a new standard to push digital distribution to the next level.

Thanks to Rita Toews for pointing me to this article.

[Dorian]

I think that quote about the future being here but unevenly distributed is originally attributable to William Gibson.

[NatCh]

Sounds like a Gibsonism to me.