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   CynAq🤘 (cynaq@beige.party)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Nov-2025 09:21:02 JST CynAq🤘

   60-80s sci-fi overestimated literally every technology except screens, which it comically underestimated.

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     CynAq🤘 (cynaq@beige.party)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Nov-2025 10:12:35 JST CynAq🤘

     • Infoseepage

     @Infoseepage That’s barely 80s, but they did get touch screens right. Even the horrible screen real estate usage.

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     CynAq🤘 (cynaq@beige.party)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Nov-2025 10:44:33 JST CynAq🤘

     • Infoseepage

     @Infoseepage My original comment is as much about the levels of imagination as what was possible to achieve on a set with practical effects.

     Take Neuromancer, for example. The book pretty much started cyberpunk. It has ambitious ideas about AI, computer-brain interfaces, cybernetic implants, yet in the orbital station where people live under spin gravity, the sky is CRT monitors playing a video loop, not, say, a 3D proc-gen skybox even. In a book too, where practical effects aren’t a limitation. IIRC Neuromancer also has pay phones but that’s beside the point I’m trying to make.

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     CynAq🤘 (cynaq@beige.party)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Nov-2025 11:02:05 JST CynAq🤘

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     • Infoseepage

     @Infoseepage Neuromancer too. I think I’m going for inspiration from Gibson and a rejection of Iain Banks, sorry Iain “M.” Banks 😂

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     CynAq🤘 (cynaq@beige.party)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Nov-2025 11:02:06 JST CynAq🤘

     • Infoseepage

     @Infoseepage I’m familiar. The TV adaptation of peripheral was one of the inspirations for the book I’m writing.