Comments on: Shattered Vision: William Gibson’s Crystal Ball Breaks; Does this mean the end of the world? http://www.davidlaplante.com/2007/08/09/shattered-vision-bruce-sterlings-crystal-ball-breaks-does-this-mean-the-end-of-the-world/ David LaPlante | davidlaplante.com Thu, 24 Mar 2011 18:30:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: BloomBurst » Blog Archive » The Present Future of Past Tense http://www.davidlaplante.com/2007/08/09/shattered-vision-bruce-sterlings-crystal-ball-breaks-does-this-mean-the-end-of-the-world/comment-page-1/#comment-603 BloomBurst » Blog Archive » The Present Future of Past Tense Mon, 20 Aug 2007 04:41:51 +0000 http://www.davidlaplante.com/2007/08/09/shattered-vision-bruce-sterlings-crystal-ball-breaks-does-this-mean-the-end-of-the-world/#comment-603 [...] and describes a warped fractured world, post 9/11. Some, like Twelve Horses’ David LaPlante, are upset that Gibson is no longer writing about avatars zipping around battling black ice. What’s worse, they assume that his abandonment of the genre that he helped birth, cyberpunk, [...] [...] and describes a warped fractured world, post 9/11. Some, like Twelve Horses’ David LaPlante, are upset that Gibson is no longer writing about avatars zipping around battling black ice. What’s worse, they assume that his abandonment of the genre that he helped birth, cyberpunk, [...]

]]> By: Bruno Giussani http://www.davidlaplante.com/2007/08/09/shattered-vision-bruce-sterlings-crystal-ball-breaks-does-this-mean-the-end-of-the-world/comment-page-1/#comment-564 Bruno Giussani Fri, 10 Aug 2007 06:16:59 +0000 http://www.davidlaplante.com/2007/08/09/shattered-vision-bruce-sterlings-crystal-ball-breaks-does-this-mean-the-end-of-the-world/#comment-564 OK I won't put your original version in my de.licio.us feed then. Thanks for your (totally undeserved) compliment. One thing I forgot to mention in my post: already with his previous book "Pattern Recognition" Gibson had moved away from the future and much closer to the present. OK I won’t put your original version in my de.licio.us feed then. Thanks for your (totally undeserved) compliment. One thing I forgot to mention in my post: already with his previous book “Pattern Recognition” Gibson had moved away from the future and much closer to the present.

]]> By: David LaPlante http://www.davidlaplante.com/2007/08/09/shattered-vision-bruce-sterlings-crystal-ball-breaks-does-this-mean-the-end-of-the-world/comment-page-1/#comment-563 David LaPlante Thu, 09 Aug 2007 23:15:21 +0000 http://www.davidlaplante.com/2007/08/09/shattered-vision-bruce-sterlings-crystal-ball-breaks-does-this-mean-the-end-of-the-world/#comment-563 Proof that I can be a real idiot sometimes. This will go down in my book as an all-time embarrassing moment! This is also proof that I approve most comments, even when they make me look like an idiot. I don't ever post anonymous comments. Proof that I can be a real idiot sometimes. This will go down in my book as an all-time embarrassing moment! This is also proof that I approve most comments, even when they make me look like an idiot. I don’t ever post anonymous comments.

]]> By: Josh http://www.davidlaplante.com/2007/08/09/shattered-vision-bruce-sterlings-crystal-ball-breaks-does-this-mean-the-end-of-the-world/comment-page-1/#comment-562 Josh Thu, 09 Aug 2007 23:00:34 +0000 http://www.davidlaplante.com/2007/08/09/shattered-vision-bruce-sterlings-crystal-ball-breaks-does-this-mean-the-end-of-the-world/#comment-562 Ah, proof that blogging is oh so cool and a good reason to have comments on. Ah, proof that blogging is oh so cool and a good reason to have comments on.

]]> By: David LaPlante http://www.davidlaplante.com/2007/08/09/shattered-vision-bruce-sterlings-crystal-ball-breaks-does-this-mean-the-end-of-the-world/comment-page-1/#comment-561 David LaPlante Thu, 09 Aug 2007 21:44:02 +0000 http://www.davidlaplante.com/2007/08/09/shattered-vision-bruce-sterlings-crystal-ball-breaks-does-this-mean-the-end-of-the-world/#comment-561 Hahaha! Oh that's soooooo embarrassing! "Find and replace" was how I got in trouble on that post in the first place! I had this whole paragraph on the "Difference Engine" then it got all complicated to work in. Then I tried to re-write it too fast...and well I'm no Bruce Sterling (or William Gibson for that matter)! Greatest day of life: Bruce Sterling visits my blog. Worst day of life: Catches the worst typo of my life! Thank you -- and please don't give up on the future! Hahaha! Oh that’s soooooo embarrassing! “Find and replace” was how I got in trouble on that post in the first place! I had this whole paragraph on the “Difference Engine” then it got all complicated to work in. Then I tried to re-write it too fast…and well I’m no Bruce Sterling (or William Gibson for that matter)!

Greatest day of life: Bruce Sterling visits my blog.
Worst day of life: Catches the worst typo of my life!

Thank you — and please don’t give up on the future!

]]> By: Bruce Sterling http://www.davidlaplante.com/2007/08/09/shattered-vision-bruce-sterlings-crystal-ball-breaks-does-this-mean-the-end-of-the-world/comment-page-1/#comment-560 Bruce Sterling Thu, 09 Aug 2007 21:34:22 +0000 http://www.davidlaplante.com/2007/08/09/shattered-vision-bruce-sterlings-crystal-ball-breaks-does-this-mean-the-end-of-the-world/#comment-560 William Gibson wrote NEUROMANCER. But, you know, a simple find and replace and this piece will work just fine. Now that I think of it, it'd be even punchier without that opening Ayn Rand homage. William Gibson wrote NEUROMANCER. But, you know, a simple find and replace and this piece will work just fine.

Now that I think of it, it’d be even punchier without that opening
Ayn Rand homage.

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