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   Cheetah Meld (pingviini@pleroma.shunderdo.me)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Jan-2024 09:23:21 JST Cheetah Meld

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   Anyway, I guess if I had read this load of bull back in 2014 or 2015, I would have been much less taken aback by Gibson's public transformation into a Trump reply guy and Russiagater on Twitter a few years later. Guy's lost it big time.
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     Cheetah Meld (pingviini@pleroma.shunderdo.me)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Jan-2024 09:23:27 JST Cheetah Meld
     It's been literally a decade of me just occasionally catching bits of praise for William Gibson's "Peripheral" novel, so I started watching the recent (and of course already cancelled) Amazon streaming adaptation and immediately was like: "Wait ... is that in the book", started reading the book and ... uh.
     
     So, "the peripheral" is a remote controlled body that is controlled through a headset that conveniently can also communicate with these bodies *through time*. And what powers this amazing technology? A "server" that some of the protagonists hacked into, but don't know how it works or where it is (but they assume it's "somewhere in China").
     
     There's also some sort of slow apocalypse going on that makes the 22nd century world (where the peripherals exist) at the same time very depopulated, technologically advanced to an astonishing degree and completely ruled by powerful oligarchs.
     
     No surprise the Amazon adaptation flopped, the only medium and format where that much suspension of disbelief for implausible nonsense is readily given by the audience is anime. Maybe Bill can still get the rights back and sell them to Japan, lol.