Cover art for William Gibson's seminal cyberpunk novel Neuromancer.

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   Jim Salter (jimsalter@fosstodon.org)'s status on Sunday, 26-Apr-2026 01:32:25 JST Jim Salter

   I'm not sure why, as a tech obsessed teenager distrustful of authority, it never occurred to me that when AI actually became a thing, it would be an unvarnished tool of oligarchy.

   But boy howdy. Add that one to the same "Jim's Dumb Teenage Takes" file right next to "all this hacking in Neuromancer is so stupid, just put a password on it and you're golden."

   1980s-era William Gibson had a MUCH better handle on how the world works than 1980s-era Jim Salter did, that's for sure.