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Re: a/s/l?
Mon, April 5, 2010 - 7:59 PMWilliam Gibson (who coined the term "cyberspace," as many of you know) in the interview doc "No Maps For These Territories" predicted that "cyber" would go the way of the prefix "electro." Current media over-use is the etymological equivalent of jumping the shark; nobody cool has used that term for years. -
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Re: a/s/l?
Tue, April 6, 2010 - 12:55 AMIt's also ridiculously inaccurate. Gibson's cybercpace was a phantom realm that required the use of direct-brain interface machines to enter. He never intended it to BE the Internet, but more like the back roads AROUND the internet. It's the man/machine interface that gave it the 'cyber' moniker. Of course, he knew nothing about computers at the time, so the whole idea will remain fiction,
*sigh* My cyber surf board is in need of an electro-wax. Anyone know which one of these tubes gets me back home? -
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Re: a/s/l?
Tue, April 6, 2010 - 7:22 PMTedward: Don't underestimate the need of geeky technologists to realize their favorite science fiction scenarios -- Second Life was wholly inspired by "Snow Crash." I fully expect to have basic working brain interfaces of some fashion within 40 +/- years. Neural interface research has made some fascinating progress in the last few years. -
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Re: a/s/l?
Tue, April 6, 2010 - 9:09 PMOh, I don't doubt the neural interface, nor do I doubt that I'll be in the first group to get them. But it's the phantom world "between the software and the hardware" that will never get slipped into no matter how cool our interface.
And until then, it's not "cyberspace". -
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Re: a/s/l?
Tue, April 6, 2010 - 11:56 PMFor now, we'll have to turn to "Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex" for depictions of Gibsonian cyberspace.
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