[internetworkers] Exercise in anti-keylogging
burnett at pobox.com
burnett at pobox.com
Tue Oct 5 09:27:30 EDT 2004
On Mon, 4 Oct 2004, Sil Greene wrote:
> The Ender series talked a lot about about the Nets; the Shadow series even
> moreso. It's interesting to see how his descriptions of the technology
> has changed as we (the overall society) get used to our own 'Net. I
> haven't read it in a long time, but I don't believe the Ender series used
> the word "server" /anywhere/.
On a related topic, I recall an interview with William Gibson where he
comments that he completely failed to predict the ubiquity of cellphones,
and that the presence of cellphones in _Neuromancer_ would completely
alter or destroy the structure of the novel. (I'm paraphrasing from memory
here).
regards,
Steve B
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