Post 3128197 by matilde@cybre.space
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(DIR) Post #3128197 by matilde@cybre.space
2019-01-19T05:07:16Z
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Can't believe Gibson thought of all that stuff in 1984. Can't believe even just a throwaway thing like the simstim stuff gets used as novelty concepts in SF thirty years later and then he already took it fifty levels higher in the same book. Can't believe he thought Blade Runner was stealing his thunder.
(DIR) Post #3128198 by mdhughes@cybre.space
2019-01-19T05:19:00Z
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@matilde While Gibson's fine, he didn't invent most of that stuff, it's in other SF and other cyberpunk writers before and current to him. Spider Robinson's "God is an Iron" (1979) is maybe the first modern wirehead/simstim, and even that's somewhat based on older ideas.
(DIR) Post #3128200 by matilde@cybre.space
2019-01-19T05:19:28Z
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@mdhughes *takes rapidfire notes*
(DIR) Post #3128301 by matilde@cybre.space
2019-01-19T05:09:07Z
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Thinking about the particular relish the female lead gets from sharing sensory experience with a passenger, with particularly titillating them. Some kind of new uh, idk — we talk about the attraction to being objectified, of being an object of desire, but of being the origin of new sensation, of being the vessel, of being the same meat
(DIR) Post #3128363 by rick_777@cybre.space
2019-01-19T05:26:45Z
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@mdhughesThe novelty with Gibson isn't technology. Asimov had Matrix-like learning in his novel "profession", so isolated concepts aren't the core of cyberpunk.What makes cyberpunk is, IMO, a combination of capitalism and rapid technological advancement; technology that runs faster than legislation and which can be used and abused. Viruses, hackers, AIs... while authors like Asimov deal with ethical implications, Gibson shows us the legal holes that allow cyberpunk to take place.@matilde