I have to say I was much more taken with the description of computers in the books. Maybe it was more me projecting than what was actually there, but what I took away from it were computer systems that worked without networking most of the time, were fault tolerant and had most of their power through programmability, which ordinary people were able to access. This reminded me so much of the ideas and visions of early computing environments and even though the books don't dwell much on computers, I found it really fascinating to see these echos there.

In comparison, the visual design of the show is just ... nice? But seems honestly pretty impracticable most of the time and I felt doesn't really set itself apart from other contemporary Sci-fi Shows.