Miguel Afonso Caetano

"Reading Neuromancer for the first time in 2025, I was struck by how eerily prescient Gibson was in so many ways—but also by what he didn’t anticipate. You can still smoke in a bar, for one. Also, print media is still the norm (maybe it makes a comeback?), and discarded newspapers blow through the streets of Manhattan. Most noticeably, not a single person in the book uses a mobile phone. There are levitating trains but no cellular devices—at one point, the main character is stalked by the ringing of payphones (very Matrix).

But what stands out most of all is that the vast amount of technology described in Neuromancer is either Japanese or German. The Standard Hitachi Pocket Computer, the Sanyo Vacuum Suit, and the Ono-Sendai Cyberspace 7 from Hosaka Computer? All Japanese. The Braun Coffee Maker, the Braun Microdrone, and the Telefunken Entertainment Console? All German. Not one piece of American tech I can think of is mentioned. Even one of the spacecraft is built by the Dornier-Fujitsu yards, a fictional German-Japanese manufacturer.

Which should hardly be surprising. In 1984, the future of technology looked distinctly non-American: Japan was dominating consumer electronics (think: Sony Walkmans and Pioneer Laserdisk players). The only Microsoft products were software and a mouse; Apple had only just released the first Macintosh. Gibson’s assumption that all of the state of art technology in the future would be Japanese makes all the sense in the world."

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Reading Neuromancer for the very first time in 2025

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Apple TV’s #Neuromancer adaptation faces a real uphill battle - how to make a cyberpunk original original

« There have been numerous attempts at film adaptations of the book, with abandoned projects involving music video director Chris Cunningham, Deadpool’s Tim Miller and Cube director Vincenzo Natali.

But after more than a decade of development hell, a 10-episode Apple TV Plus series is officially in the works. »

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retrocompmx

En julio 1 de 1984 sale a la venta la novela distópica Neuromancer de William Gibson, la historia de un hacker envenenado que debe entrar al Ciberespacio, palabra que se usó por primera vez en esta novela
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Dennis A

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Really looking forward to Apple's new sci-fi Neuromancer coming from the Dark Winds people. I wonder if they finished filming yet. Production started in January.

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Dave Tabb

I have recently re-read two of William Gibson's "Sprawl" novels, and I can barely count the times I've furrowed my brows to say, "what just happened?"

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Evaristo Ramos ✍️

Fiquei animado demais com as imagens que saíram dos bastidores da série de tv de Neuromancer, por isso estou fazendo uma fanart da Molly Millions.
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Уильям Гибсон: киберпанк-пророк, предсказавший наш мир

Через 40 лет после выхода книги «Нейромант» разбираем, какие из придуманных американским фантастом технологий будущего воплотились в нашем мире, а какие нет — и почему.

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Уильям Гибсон: киберпанк-пророк, предсказавший наш мир

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gabriele renzi

pretty great casting!

love Gibson's worlds but I can't stand his writing style, so I'm super happy to hear there's a Neuromancer TV show coming. Heck, I thought The Peripheral was fantastic and better than the book for what it lasted (curse you amazon!)

I just hope they make it a one season per book thing, rather than drag the story endlessly.

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