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## Segment 7 — governance

## Article 56 — a056

# William Gibson

**Role in the source:** A cited external voice (not the source's author). Science-fiction author quoted for his aphorism about the uneven distribution of the future.

Gibson is known for the line **"The future is already here — it's just not evenly distributed."** The author invokes it to make the point that [[concept-agentic-governance|agentic governance]] — AI agents acting as board members — is **already a reality in some smaller, younger, AI-native companies**, even if it has not yet reached most established boards. He contributes no independent claim to this vault beyond lending this framing to the agentic-governance argument.