From: alias.remove@netserver.org   
      
   On 2003-12-08, Omixochitl  wrote:   
   > alias  wrote in   
   > news:slrnbt7oej.3a9.alias.remove@god-eater.no-ip.com:   
   >   
   >> i think alot of the reason cyberpunk is dead dead dead is there is no   
   >> longer that huge well of anomie to tap into.. we have all (more or less)   
   >> adapted to the tech that surrounds us.. PC's are no longer revolutionary   
   >> thier just there.. ubiquitous and unalarming..   
   >   
   > Ah, but the tech that surrounds *us* need not be the tech that surrounds a   
   > story's characters in order for the story to be CP.  :)   
      
   sure... but without that sense of future shock also surrounding the   
   *reader* it doesn't resonate in the same way.  i recall reading   
   Neuromancer for the 1st time (when i was about 12 or so.. and much too   
   young to really understand it) and actually *struggling* with so me of   
   the concepts it presented.   
      
   had i been born in 1985 instead of 1975 i think i would have had a much   
   easier time convieving the idea of the internet (which at the time i   
   could not) .. how long has it been since someone needed such simple   
   things explained to them?   
      
   in '87 it was a stretch.. least for sprawl kid with no money ; )   
      
      
   >If cyberpunk-story   
   > tech is now just everyday life then where's my Primer*?   
   >   
      
   u didn't get the memo?  we decided to let the marketplace make these   
   decisions.. apparently interest in microscopes is limited.  however u   
   can read all the books u like on ur PDA or laptop.. same difference.   
      
   or close enough that i can recognize and understand Stephensons device   
   without any difficulty.   
      
   ..   
   alias   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)