Lecture

Creating the 'ugly shirt'

Or how I misunderstood 'Zero History'

November 07, 2026 – Talks Room 2.25 en talks

How I created the 'ugly shirt' from the book 'don't create the ugly shirt' (Zero History).

Some fun research based upon my misunderstanding of the ugly shirt as described by William Gibson in Zero History. Multiple iterations of 'an' ugly shirt already exist, as is the research into counter surveillance very wide, with both facial recognition disruption, counter illumination and so on. But what if we take this idea a bit further into the realm of 'global conspiracy'. Which would also be fitting for a Gibson novel.

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