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Re:William Gibson on the apocalypse: “it’s been happening fo... by aaron695 on Sunday March 01, 2020 @04:07AM (#22455938)
I agree except after Pattern Recognition (2003) was to me the change.

But Pattern Recognition was amazing at the time, but now a lot of the stuff in it is normal. Like Influencers in it was a really novel idea at the time, now considered everyday.

I waited ages after Spook Country (2007) to try and read it, so perhaps it was to late.

Internet changed it all. What he was amazing at, now gets just served up to everyone. The future is still un-evenly distributed, but viewing it is evenly distributed.

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Re:William Gibson on the apocalypse: “it’s been happening fo... by jhbadger on Sunday March 01, 2020 @10:34AM (#22457254)
That was actually kind of the point of the "Blue Ant" trilogy ("Pattern Recognition" and its sequels). It was supposed to be set when it was written, not the future. It was a type of requiem for cyberpunk because we are living in the cyberpunk universe. With "The Peripheral/Agency" he is returning to actual science fiction but of a type that is very different from cyberpunk.
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