Global human perception organ
September 3rd, 2010
“Cyberspace, not so long ago, was a specific elsewhere, one we visited periodically, peering into it from the familiar physical world. Now cyberspace has everted. Turned itself inside out. Colonized the physical. Making Google a central and evolving structural unit not only of the architecture of cyberspace, but of the world. This is the sort of thing that empires and nation-states did, before. But empires and nation-states weren’t organs of global human perception. They had their many eyes, certainly, but they didn’t constitute a single multiplex eye for the entire human species”
William Gibson, from Thursdays edition of the International Herald Tribune. September 2nd, 2010. The same day as my brothers birthday – happy birthday Lox.
Photo of an oversized egg i made in 2008.
September 3rd, 2010 at 7:53 pm
when i first read Neuromancer i really struggled to figure out what the internet was, picturing an electronic city with actual buildings and real space to traverse.
i might read it again, i`ll put it in the queue behind World at War, Anvil of Stars, Mothman Prophecies & Queer.
September 4th, 2010 at 2:04 am
Yeah, i actually found neuromancer really frustrating to read, and not especially illuminating, a second read is definitely required (after Queer, and Life During Wartime, and Touched by a pant). I imagine Neuromancer would have been retroactively tainted by films with similar themes – like the Matrix and bad cyberpunk anime.
September 25th, 2010 at 7:40 am
started reading My Life in the Bush of Ghosts – mad book from Africa. Mad writing style. i think you`d like it.