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[Evan Zimmerman <evan.zimmerman AT gmail.com>]

That's it! Good background movie, no need to really _watch_ it.


On Tue, 5 Oct 2004 09:49:35 -0400 (EDT), burnett AT pobox.com
<burnett AT pobox.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 5 Oct 2004, Evan Zimmerman wrote:
> 
> > I recall that too -- there's actually a movie that's just a long
> > interview with him where he discusses that. Pretty worthwhile stuff.
> > It's available on Netflix is you search for gibson I believe -- no
> > idea what the title was.
> 
> You're probably thinking of the film _No Maps For These Territories_. I
> own it, but haven't watched it since I got the film last year or so.
> 
> Steve B
> 
> 
> 
> > On Tue, 5 Oct 2004 09:27:30 -0400 (EDT), burnett AT pobox.com
> > <burnett AT pobox.com> wrote:
> > > 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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