BoredomFestivalMar 11
Re-reading "Neuromancer" and I'm struck how the protagonist wanting to get out of debt by selling 3MB of RAM went from being laughably dated to seeming actually plausible within recent months
Show threadI Voted for McGovernMar 11
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Wow, a flash forward from the past. Must reread this. Thanks! William Gibson was prescient on so many levels
Show threadRoadskater, Ph.D.
@goatrodeo @BoredomFestival "The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel" So confusing in 2026. What, it's completely black? Or in 2030, it's showing non-stop ads?
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Show threadSpace HoboMar 11
@roadskater @goatrodeo @BoredomFestival 1990s, it's blue?
Show threadYpsilenna GloomvaleMar 11
@roadskater @goatrodeo @BoredomFestival I imagined it would be gray with static 😆
Show threadWestern InfidelsMar 11
@roadskater @goatrodeo @BoredomFestival I read a critic's take on one of Gibson's later books, in which the critic asserted that cyberpunk, like newspapers, is writing for the now, with no consideration for how it might age at all. I don't like the idea but I haven't been able to fault it, either.
Show threadDavid GerardMar 12
@WesternInfidels @roadskater @goatrodeo @BoredomFestival that's all science fiction, it's always about the present
Show threadJoeMar 15
@WesternInfidels @roadskater @goatrodeo @BoredomFestival I think Gibson would agree with that. He famously said that the future is here, it is just unevenly distributed. He was really writing about the edges of what was currently happening.
Show threadMaestro MushiMar 17
@goatrodeo @roadskater @WesternInfidels @BoredomFestival I mean, that's a take from someone that a) hasn't participated in the dialogue that science fiction has been in since the 50s (see herbert, bradbury, etc. ) and b) didn't actually listen to Gibson when he said that he was doing that exact thing for the bigend trilogy: cyberpunk is now the present he said