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In 1984, when Neuromancer was published, TV was analog and inbetween channels you got static snow. Gibson had to mean that. A grey/white overcast sky. Everythi
by w0mbat 5y ago
In 1984, when Neuromancer was published, TV was analog and inbetween channels you got static snow. Gibson had to mean that. A grey/white overcast sky.
Everything else is over-thinking.
I love Neuromancer but the irony is how badly cyberpunk or indeed any sci-fi has predicted the future, the absence of smartphones being the most obvious example.
- the_af 5y agoIf you read the scifi.se Q&A I linked to, which mentions several contradictory answers given by Gibson over the years, you'll see it's not so simple and definitely not overthinking it! Analog TVs didn't always give static snow, by the way. One of Gibson's latest answers is a retweet of Monica Lewinsky's (yes, that Monica) photo of a cloudy gray day and stating "that's exactly what I was thinking of". It looks nothing at all like an analog's TV static snow!