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Not that I recall, and I read it within months of release. Can you point to some contemporaneous reviews or critiques that do so?
by jhayward 8y ago
Not that I recall, and I read it within months of release. Can you point to some contemporaneous reviews or critiques that do so?
- kasey_junk 8y agoThe literary critiques & reviews were hugely positive about Neuromancer, but its a fairly common take down of the book how bad the technology pieces are. Here is an interview with Gibson where he talks about it: https://www.wired.com/2012/09/interview-with-william-gibson/ https://www.wired.com/2012/09/interview-with-william-gibson/ (For the record he talks about it in agreement, he thinks he himself could write a good takedown of the technology).
- jhayward 8y agoThanks for that interview link. Note that it was almost 30 years after publication. I suppose a critique of "not sufficiently prescient" is supported by it, but "known at the time of publication that it got the IT wrong", which is what I think the GP was saying, isn't.