the people online who are deep into the acronym stuff are deeply cringe. they're always going to parking garage roofs and taking pictures of themselves doing hacker poses. it's cool for sure but you might have to literally be william gibson to wear it and not look dumb.
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haven't read BE yet but it would be very like pynchon to predict goofy internet clothes culture
gaze into the abyss: https://www.reddit.com/r/techwearclothing/
gaze into the abyss: https://www.reddit.com/r/techwearclothing/
Yeah, the Acronym/techwear fan base is overwhelmingly cringe, although as an owner of some Acronym pieces I'd like to think you can separate the fans and the clothes. Like, it's still niche enough that I don't think people are going to see you wearing one of their jackets and think you necessarily aspire to look like the guy above.
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Got Burning Chrome and Mona Lisa Overdrive in the post today. Loved Count Zero. Thought it was much more satisfying than Neuromancer. Padraig was right about Turner's arc, actually ended up enjoying his and Bobby's more than Marly's by the end. The bit with the AI making the Cornell boxes was good though.
Read someone positing CZ as Gibson attempting to remedy the coolness of Neuromancer somewhat as he'd presented a pretty horrendous world, but a lot of people just went "Cool!" and focused on the tech etc, so he wrote a follow up which paid closer attention to human beings and spent less time in cyberspace. Dunno whether that's the case, or whether he'd always planned to shift focus in a follow up, but makes sense to me.
Read someone positing CZ as Gibson attempting to remedy the coolness of Neuromancer somewhat as he'd presented a pretty horrendous world, but a lot of people just went "Cool!" and focused on the tech etc, so he wrote a follow up which paid closer attention to human beings and spent less time in cyberspace. Dunno whether that's the case, or whether he'd always planned to shift focus in a follow up, but makes sense to me.
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remember the jackalope
as far as his later work, I like Pattern Recognition. Spook Country was bad though it had a good idea or two in it that I think probably sounds quaint now (augmented reality). I saw him speak during a book tour for SC. He was into Japanese repros of American goods (military and denim) - I moderated a huge board (i know a couple people here were also members there) dedicated to that stuff and we were always guessing who among us he was. The board eventually developed a TechNinja subforum for brands like ACRNM and it is natural that Gibson himself evolved along those lines. I remember reading somewhere that Cayce Pollard from PR was based on the singer from Curve.
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Very clunky reference to Neuromancer in Hyperion (there were several similar things earlier I noticed) when they mention that no human has ever penetrated an AI cyberspace called the core
I sound like I'm moaning but I like a nice reference that makes you feel smart when reading a book every now and again.
my uncle who lives in vancouver knew william gibson in like the late 70s or early 80s. they worked at some job together, and apparently gibson would tell his coworkers all these weird stories (in retrospect, probably writing ideas) as if they’d happened to him. more recently he was sighted at an obscure local folk music festival, apparently looking wildly out of place in his techwear or whatever.
