Fun fact, when he originally wrote this, he was thinking of dead air during the 60s, where it was just a greyish wash, not the more salt and pepper static of the 80s
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this is gibson right?
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First line in Neuromancer
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thought so. i never finished it! but i did read a few chapters.
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very sloggy
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2028 the sky will be ads for betting sites.
even the memes making fun of it are too modern. the static was pretty much greyscale on a crt in the 80s.
I put pen to paper when I was younger and described the rain as "the colour of computer shells".
Slightly different setting if the reader had a Macbook, an iMac g3, or a Macintosh.
The 2025 is definitely the most accurate for a cyberpunk setting
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