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What book are you referring to?



Not Gibson, but Snow Crash comes to mind


That book is going to turn out to be prophecy.

I mean, obviously we're not going to see a physical virus that enters as sensory information --

Wait. ... Are COVID and anti-masking part of the same replicator-complex? ... I see how anti-masking helps COVID. But how would COVID help anti-masking? I don't see how. ... Ok, probably not.

-- but that book's concerns seem incredibly prescient.

What disturbs me most is how L. Bob Rife, the bad guy, in his one and only monologue, in a TV recording (weird how he never appears in person), seems to... basically be correct.

Biomass.


On the money.

I read Snow Crash about two years ago and the theme of virality increasing as dynamic systems get larger feels all too real right now.


Head-desk. That's exactly what I was thinking of.


In Neuromancer and other Gibson novels, cyberspace bleeds into real life - Case becomes trapped in cyberspace by an AI, Armitage has a personality constructed by the same AI when he's actually a mental case named Cortez, etc




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