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Re:The Ugliest Sign in America by bitwize on Friday March 20, 2015 @02:24PM (#9239608)
The practical, utilitarian present is always hideous. The romantic imagined past is always beautiful. That's why today there's more dignity in being a burlesque performer than a regular stripper. And why Gibson wrote Neuromancer on a manual typewriter and avoided touching computers until they became so ubiquitous he couldn't not touch one.
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Re:The Ugliest Sign in America by DanBC on Friday March 20, 2015 @02:30PM (#9239667)
To be fair Neuromancer was published in 1984 so computers and word processing was weird and clunky and expensive.
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Re:The Ugliest Sign in America by bitwize on Saturday March 21, 2015 @04:44PM (#9244151)
Many journalists and authors still swear by WordStar -- among them George R.R. Martin. 1980s word processing was in some ways more straightforward than the Word of today.
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