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3D render of old tv set with animated static on its screen, as if tuned to a dead channel.

  • ZagamTheVile@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    “The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.” W. Gibson.

    It’s wild that this makes no, or little at most, sense to entire generations now.

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      7 months ago

      What do you mean? It’s blue, right?

      (It’s a joke. Don’t worry, I get the original meaning, I’m old.)

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      7 months ago

      In another bit of poorly-aged prediction by Gibson, Case, the main character, brings some RAM with him to sell for a quick buck on the street. How much RAM? Three entire megabytes.

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        Here’s the real question: did Gibson write Neuromancer before or after Bill Gates said no one would ever conceivably need more than 640k of RAM?

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          I’m not sure, but I always found it mildly amusing that he wrote it on a manual typewriter.

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      Ha I remember that. I also recall someone in the 80s there was a pop song popular in Poland, entitled “Glass Weather”. It was about these rainy autumn evenings when there’s nothing better to do than sit in front of your (black and white) TV. The lyrics were mentioning “apartment window blue from the TV glow”.