Re-reading "Neuromancer" and I'm struck how the protagonist wanting to get out of debt by selling 3MB of RAM went from being laughably dated to seeming actually plausible within recent months
-
@goatrodeo @BoredomFestival "The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel" So confusing in 2026. What, it's completely black? Or in 2030, it's showing non-stop ads?
@roadskater @goatrodeo @BoredomFestival I imagined it would be gray with static
-
@BoredomFestival
Wow, a flash forward from the past. Must reread this. Thanks! William Gibson was prescient on so many levels"The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel."
-
Re-reading "Neuromancer" and I'm struck how the protagonist wanting to get out of debt by selling 3MB of RAM went from being laughably dated to seeming actually plausible within recent months
I just looked up that passage.
It says 3 MB of "hot" RAM from "the Hitachi".Isn't "Hitachi" synonymous with a certain kind of toy for grown-ups these days?
Those surely have 3 MB of RAM nowadays. And it would be "hot" RAM for sure.
-
Re-reading "Neuromancer" and I'm struck how the protagonist wanting to get out of debt by selling 3MB of RAM went from being laughably dated to seeming actually plausible within recent months
@BoredomFestival All of that AI hallucinating itself as a god/artist nonsense starting to look a lot more realistic as well.
-
Re-reading "Neuromancer" and I'm struck how the protagonist wanting to get out of debt by selling 3MB of RAM went from being laughably dated to seeming actually plausible within recent months
@BoredomFestival @benroyce next generation of consoles will be a re-cased Dreamcast.
-
Re-reading "Neuromancer" and I'm struck how the protagonist wanting to get out of debt by selling 3MB of RAM went from being laughably dated to seeming actually plausible within recent months
@BoredomFestival Longtime fan of CP.... starting to hate how real shit is getting (also, its always the terrible stuff and none of the cool stuff from the genre).
-
"The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel."
I've read it like 10-15 years ago.
I still remember this line.Great book and great writer.
-
I just looked up that passage.
It says 3 MB of "hot" RAM from "the Hitachi".Isn't "Hitachi" synonymous with a certain kind of toy for grown-ups these days?
Those surely have 3 MB of RAM nowadays. And it would be "hot" RAM for sure.
@alexanderondu @BoredomFestival @patterfloof Hitachi hadn't put their name on the magic wand for ages, and sold the design to another company a few years ago...
-
Re-reading "Neuromancer" and I'm struck how the protagonist wanting to get out of debt by selling 3MB of RAM went from being laughably dated to seeming actually plausible within recent months
@BoredomFestival
Later in the series, he describes AI-generated art that is nothing like the soulless drivel we actually got. -
@goatrodeo @BoredomFestival "The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel" So confusing in 2026. What, it's completely black? Or in 2030, it's showing non-stop ads?
@roadskater @goatrodeo @BoredomFestival I read a critic's take on one of Gibson's later books, in which the critic asserted that cyberpunk, like newspapers, is writing for the now, with no consideration for how it might age at all. I don't like the idea but I haven't been able to fault it, either.
-
@BoredomFestival lately I’ve been constantly thinking about Neuromancer. Almost seems like it’s been used as a guide book by some, but not in the good way. Anyway, I just wish @GreatDismal was more into mastodon than twitter
@flun1tr4z3p4m @BoredomFestival @GreatDismal He’s been fairly active on Bluesky. Not Masto, I realize, but at least better than Twitter.
-
I've read it like 10-15 years ago.
I still remember this line.Great book and great writer.
@FandaSin @goatrodeo @BoredomFestival
Depends how you read that line as it's meaning have managed over time. Also the sky is blue!! 🫨
-
@FandaSin @goatrodeo @BoredomFestival
Depends how you read that line as it's meaning have managed over time. Also the sky is blue!! 🫨
I'm old enough to know how "dead channel" looked like.
(I suppose) as it was meant by author back then. -
@BoredomFestival Longtime fan of CP.... starting to hate how real shit is getting (also, its always the terrible stuff and none of the cool stuff from the genre).
It’s profoundly unfair that in the 80s we didn’t get 1940s space opera coming true, but in the 2020s we get 1980s cyberpunk dystopia.
-
I just looked up that passage.
It says 3 MB of "hot" RAM from "the Hitachi".Isn't "Hitachi" synonymous with a certain kind of toy for grown-ups these days?
Those surely have 3 MB of RAM nowadays. And it would be "hot" RAM for sure.
@alexanderondu
@BoredomFestival
Hitachi at some point in the '90s was making computers (MSX, laptop RISC, PCs) along with other Japanese tech company.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MSX
https://www.computer-specifications.com/specifications/Hitachi-C90D-Specs.html
https://www.openpa.net/pa-risc_processor_other.html#pa50So maybe Gibson was using one of these as reference.
-
Re-reading "Neuromancer" and I'm struck how the protagonist wanting to get out of debt by selling 3MB of RAM went from being laughably dated to seeming actually plausible within recent months
@BoredomFestival time certainly is a flat circle.
-
"The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel."
@simonzerafa @goatrodeo @BoredomFestival Not blue enough.
-
T tanketom@tutoteket.no shared this topic
