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There seems to be something in Gibsons writing about how he doesn’t let the details of the actual technology get in the way of the feeling and aesthetic he is g
by porknubbins 7y ago
There seems to be something in Gibsons writing about how he doesn’t let the details of the actual technology get in the way of the feeling and aesthetic he is going for, but also he has an almost unique gift for this kind of thing, and quite obviously does like and know about technology to some extent. If you take your average US boomer who brags that they “knew literally nothing about computers” I doubt they could invent “cyberspace” or a computer “deck” wired directly into the brain.
- im3w1l 7y agoI don't know... Seems to me the easy part of sci-fi is the ideas, and the hard part is execution part where you turn them into good stories. “If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.” - Commonly but falsely attributed to Henry Ford. But a sci-fi universe where cars were never invented, and horses had after centuries of careful breeding achieved highway speed would be interesting.