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Neuromancer was a critique of the era that birthed it. Reagan might be gone, but the frameworks cemented into place back then are still the same frameworks we o
by discardedrefuse 5y ago
Neuromancer was a critique of the era that birthed it. Reagan might be gone, but the frameworks cemented into place back then are still the same frameworks we operate under today. Gibson may have unintentionally been predicting the future. As the world further aligns with the cyberpunk dystopia, the mainstreaming of cyberpunk aesthetic is inevitable.
I'm reminded of that line in The Matrix when Neo breaks The Oracle's vase, "What's really going to bake your noodle later on is, would you still have broken it if I hadn't said anything?"
- themadturk 5y agoAs Gibson himself has said, science fiction is a commentary on the moment in which it's written, and almost never succeeds in predicting the future. That doesn't mean it can't help shape the future (which I think Neuromancer did, at least a little). But that's a different thing.
- porbelm 5y agoThe fun thing is I read the Sprawl and Bridge trilogies over the past year and oh my effing my how extremely accurate some of his extrapolations turned out to be. So rare and unusual, but post-2016 could not have turned out much different I guess
- jdkee 5y agoSee Adam Curtis' excellent Hypernormalisation. https://vimeo.com/191817381 https://vimeo.com/191817381