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I've just come across the worst take on #Neuromancer ever, here's an excerpt:
> Now the Millennials and Zoomers, who will likely never read Neuromancer, also have no memory of reality without virtual escapism
Can you believe doing a "kids these days" on Neuro-fucking-mancer!?
Oh, and BTW, if, like me, you're a "Millenial or a Zoomer who will likely never read Neuromancer" know that William Gibson is here in the #Fediverse so give him a follow: @GreatDismal
@gabrielesvelto @GreatDismal I am genuinely struggling to grasp the point the author was trying to make. "you kids don't remember when the sky was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel"
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kids these days live in a world being consumed by horrific techno-feudalism, but they'll never know what it was like to tune a TV to the channel that looked like the sky above the port in the opening scene of Gibson's famous novel, turn on the video game console, and play a game.
@llewelly arguably static on TV is the only thing they'll miss. The environment-destroying techno-fueled corporate dystopia is the world we live in
@gabrielesvelto yeah; there are some metaphors, and some other things (like the cassette tape that contains the reconstitution of Case's dead mentor), that might be confusing, depending on how much knowledge of late 1970s - 1980s tech they have, but the overall import - like the horrible pollution the description of the sky was meant to evoke, and the major themes - would be understandable, I think.
@llewelly yes, I think that the social critique is very easy to grasp, probably much easier than in the past. Some of the technical details will sound anachronistic, but that's really not the point of the book.
@gabrielesvelto I probably wouldn't have remembered the cassette tape, except that I recently re-read a 1981 novel by a different author which also uses cassette tapes in ways that seemed reasonable then but seem anachronistic now, though again, the anachronism would not hamper understanding the major themes.