CynAq🤘@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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