
"The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel" opened "Neuromancer", William Gibson (1984). The "color" is different depending on when you read it.
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Predictions in ‘Neuromancer’, continued
*Global computer police (Turing)
*A pandemic and its impact on a major species (equine)
*Large exclusive places for the wealthy and cramped, dangerous places for everyone else
*Wealthy tourist travel to earth orbit
*Artificial longevity treatments for the wealthy
Predictions in ‘Neuromancer’,
continued
*Unregulated zones that drive cybernetic development - like AI and Fintech today
*Demise of written literacy in favor of holographic display of systems and data - like videos instead of words today
*Dominance of corporations over governments
*Widespread pollution that has poisoned the environment
*Urban sprawl and its decay
*Hacking and data theft as a profession
Predictions in William Gibson’s ‘Neuromancer’ (1983)
*The internet (Cyberspace)
*Virtual Reality (simstim)
*Sentient AI (Wintermute and Neuromancer)
*Computers that gather and summarize data from the internet - like LLMs do today
*Self-driving taxis
*Temperfoam mattresses
*Cosmetic surgery for affordable beauty
*Harvesting organs from non-consenting humans
*Widespread drug use
*Cybernetics - tech embedded in humans
The classic novel by #Canada’s sci-fi master William Gibson - that shaped modern cyberpunk - is coming to Apple+TV… soon
“Long considered unfilmable, #Neuromancer follows washed-up hacker Case as he's pulled into a dangerous digital heist that blurs the line between reality and cyberspace.
It may have hit shelves 40 years ago, but it’s the story that helped invent #cyberpunk as audiences know it today.”
https://www.makeuseof.com/cyberpunk-neuromancer-apple-tv-everything-we-know/