From: ddarren@remuveverizon.net   
      
   "ded-T"  wrote in message   
   news:5mepu0dec1asbfvegimajcge6tmfktih3c@4ax.com...   
   > And then there is Simulacron 3 [1964] which was a Matrixie thingy   
   > [done badly on film  as "the 13th floor"]...   
   >   
   > Or "Gladiator At Law" [1955] which had the sprawl, 'burbs, mad   
   > cyborg-ai's, and a slot machine stock market.   
   >   
   > OF course Little Heros [1976] has CGI music stars and a little   
   > revolution against corporate amerika...   
   >   
   > then in the non-fictional vein:   
   >   
   > there's Words Made Flesh[~1970] about the probability that our world   
   > really is the Matrix.   
   >   
   > and there's Joseph Campbell's Hero with a Thousand Faces [1949] which   
   > was the whole plot line of the matrix, neuromancer, hardwired, etc.   
   > etc.   
   >   
   > No Tron was a virus pretending to be an OS...   
   >   
   > Maybe that's where Bill got the idea for windows... [MCP = Microsoft   
   > Certified Professional = Male Chauvinist Pig = Master Control Program]   
   >   
   > Gibson gets the credit for coining the term and defining the space but   
   > he built on the shoulders of giants...   
   > the ded 1   
   >   
   Gibson also called software "microsofts" in Neuromancer. Did Gates steal it   
   from him or vice-versa?   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)