https://doctorow.medium.com/neuromancer-today-ab2ce8dcd757
"William Gibson and Eileen Gunn have been pals since the early days; it was
Gunn — then a Microsoft exec — who hosted Gisbon — then a penniless writer — in
Seattle and brought him to the hacker bars where he eavesdropped on what he
calls “the poetics of the technological subculture.”
It’s been nearly 40 years since Gibson’s seminal
Neuromancer was published,
and today on Tor.com, Gunn writes at length about the meaning of that
earthshaking book then and now, and what it says about Gibson as a writer and
thinker.
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https://www.tor.com/2022/02/10/the-peculiar-dystopian-optimism-of-william-gibsons-neuromancer/>
She reminds us that reading
Neuromancer today is a very different experience
than it was when she read the manuscript prior to publication. Gibson’s
coinages — notably “cyberspace” — are now all around us, so they disappear
rather than leaping off the page. What’s more, the world he depicts — America
in decline, China and Japan ascendant, corporate power eclipsing democratically
accountable states, inequality stretched to the breaking point — is no longer a
speculative shock."
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*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
