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Very cool, I was watching Johnny Mnemonic recently and lamenting that Gibson's stories have never really been given a fair chance on film/tv. Mnemonic is worth a rewatch and IMHO has actually improved with age now that you can look back at some of the effects and such as retro 90s nostalgia. I'm looking forward to see what Apple does for Neuromancer.

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A few months ago they came out with a black and white recut of Johnny Mnemonic. Around that time I was rewatching it and what hit me like a brick was this is what the movie's depiction (released in 1995) of what Beijing in 2021 would look like: https://i.imgur.com/WZY6hjf.png

Yep the movie is strangely prophetic. To be fair though I remember hearing people talk about the risk of airborne virus pandemics since the 90s.

One thing they got squarely wrong were cybernetic dolphins being used to crack decryption LOL.

> To be fair though I remember hearing people talk about the risk of airborne virus pandemics since the 90s.

Airborne pandemics were an established trope in cyberpunk by this time. Masamune Shirow's sardonic Dominion series from the late 80s comes to mind.

Yeah, GPUs seem to have displaced dolphins for so many computational tasks.

Have you had a chance to watch The Peripheral yet? If so, any opinions?

Read the book a few years ago, then watched the series. Doesn't quite follow the book but is entertaining anyway. You also have to pay attention as not everything is explained right away. The series 1 ending is a bit confusing. The only complaint I have is the actors' accents may cause you to turn on CC at times.

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