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Just in time for the snow crash TV show
by ortusdux 7y ago
Just in time for the snow crash TV show
- folago 7y agoIs there a TV show?! I loved that book! Please don't be like Altered Carbon.
- tzumby 7y agoI had the exact same reaction as I read the comment :D
- ortusdux 7y agoMichael Bacall is adapting it for HBO. He worked with Edgar Wright to adapt Scott Pilgrim, so I am cautiously optimistic.
- jfengel 7y agoI was under the impression that Altered Carbon was very popular. Do you not think it's very good, or is it that it doesn't do the book justice?
- Eric_WVGG 7y agoSnow Crash was VR. This is _exactly_ technology that William Gibson described in Virtual Light. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_Light https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_Light
- DanBC 7y agoBut this display does use photons, it shoots lasers into your eyes. The glasses in Virtual Light "got these little EMP drivers around the lenses, work your optic nerves direct".
- thebigspacefuck 7y agoHiro uses something like this (laser projecting into his retina) for his computer in Snow Crash. EDIT: Actually he wears goggles that the laser shines onto, so a little different