wowwwwwww just arrived in #Chongqing and it's like #Neuromancer irl???! 🤘🤖🤘
#neuromancer
I'm still not far enough into the #Neuromancer book that I know what exactly "Wintermute" is or does (nothing benign I suppose), but naming a project after this is somehow creepy af
https://www.forschung-it-sicherheit-kommunikationssysteme.de/projekte/wintermute
Decided to reread Gibson's #Neuromancer. The novel begins with Case, the fallen #cyberspace cowboy, down and out in #NightCity, with a tail on his ass and his deals falling apart. He tries to raise some coin hawking wares but fails: "His buyer for the three megabytes of hot RAM in the Hitachi wasn't taking calls."
3 MB. I remember reading this in the 80s and thinking what I was supposed to think -- what a shit-ton of RAM. Now in 2025 I know why the guy wasn't taking Case's calls...
After a few unsatisfying reads, lastly Peng Shepherd’s The Cartographers, and abandoning Wheel of Time, I’m going for repetition of the familiar. It’s been a decade since the last read and I first read it in 1989—but it’s time to re-read Gibson’s Sprawl trilogy. I have read almost everything he’s written and read Blue Ant numerous times.
I’m interested to see how it feels in 2025.
Nachdem wir jetzt festgestellt haben, das diese dystopische #Cyberpunk -welt, in der alles vernetzt, chaotisch, rechtlos, überwachbar und von Konzernen kontrolliert ist, zu unserer Gegenwart geworden ist.
Was machen wir denn jetzt mit dieser Erkenntnis?
Für einen Konsolencowboy wie in #Neuromancer eigne ich mich nicht. Motorradfahren wie V aus Cyberpunk 2077 kann ich auch nicht. Milliardärserbe bin ich ebensowenig.
Ich glaube ich habe überhaupt gar nicht so viele Skills für so eine Welt.🤔
Movie TV Tech Geeks #TV #SciFi #Neuromancer #MargaretAtwood These 8 Upcoming Sci-Fi Shows Based on Books Could Be Epic http://dlvr.it/TP9NmR
>I blame #Neuromancer , at least in part, for the fictional conception of computers that lead to programs that run on any computer they find
Aha, so Gibson predicted flatpacks too!
This week Alien Core is out! In celebration, we take a deep dive into my personal fav, the Malevolent AI.
https://solorunstudio.com/2025/11/02/starfinder-2e-alien-core-and-killer-a-i/
#Paizo #Starfinder2E #StarfinderSecondEdition #AlienCore #MalevolentAI #Braniac #Ultron #Hal3000 #GLADOS #SHODAN #Sovereign #DemonSeed #Wintermute #GhostInTheShell #Neuromancer
Man, #Neuromancer reads really different now that the meaning of #ICE has been near-completely co-opted in America.
Why do I always have the name Weyland-Yutani in my mind when I'm actually thinking of Tessier-Ashpool? (Or asked the other way round: Why do I always think that #WeylandYutani was a corporation from #Neuromancer and not from #Alien?) 🤷
I really enjoyed this! #Cyberpunk #Neuromancer I am off to read “Count Zero” 🤓 #WilliamGibson https://overcast.fm/+AAAkMbMSN5E @incomparable
I read #Neuromancer for the very first time -- for a podcast! (shocker, I know)
I had some thoughts as a first-time reader here in 2025, and @jsnell, @antonyjohnston, @lschmeiser, and @glennf helped me understand the original context and what it was like loving the book at the time (and since). (Antony even wrote an album inspired by it!)
https://www.theincomparable.com/theincomparable/786/
Meat brain: Neuromancer is a story about the dystopia to which we cosign ourselves if we continue on this trajectory of individualism, capitalism, and consumption.
AI brain: Neuromancer is a story about our perpetual striving to overcome our limitations and control that which we are fundamentally, as a species, unsuited to control, and both the inevitability of success and the unintended consequences of that success if done thoughtlessly.
Galaxy-brain: Neuromancer is a story about the Drake equation.
I am reading again the #Neuromancer, and I totally forgot about their stop in #Amsterdam. That flat described could be by location and age my old appartment 🤣 I am wondering if the bar they talk about actually existed and if it is still there. 🤔
OMG. I should call these pants the MOLLE Millions pants #neuromancer #iykyk
I didn't know this was a thing! Exciting!
When I hear AI music, I'm often reminded of this interchange in #Neuromancer:
‘Listen,’ Case said, ‘that’s an AI, you know? Artificial intelligence. The music it played you, it probably just tapped your banks and cooked up whatever it thought you’d like to –’
‘Babylon,’ broke in the other Founder, ‘mothers many demon, I an’ I know. Multitude horde!’
🎤✨ William Gibson reads #Neuromancer and apparently it's like witnessing the resurrection of Shakespeare himself, while poor Ray Bradbury is depicted as a bumbling mess on stage, barely stringing two words together. 🤷♂️ Why read when you can cringe at the audio version instead? 😂
http://bearcave.com/bookrev/neuromancer/neuromancer_audio.html #WilliamGibson #RayBradbury #AudioBooks #CringeCulture #LiteraryLegends #HackerNews #ngated
William Gibson Reads Neuromancer
http://bearcave.com/bookrev/neuromancer/neuromancer_audio.html
#HackerNews #WilliamGibson #Neuromancer #AudioBook #Cyberpunk #Literature #SciFi
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