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While they are a nice read, I had the impression his stories didn't age well in terms of technology.

A fax machine in a car?

The technology very rapidly aged, but that's not what you read Gibson for; his writing much more evocative and stylish than your typical SF.

The payphones ringing in the airport as the AI tries to call Case in Neuromancer.

Gave me the chills when I read it, but it was also kind of quaint even back then, I mean yuppies had cell phones.

It didn't disturb me though then or now, I like the feel of the novel.

wait till eink is the thickness of a sheet of paper, and cellular modems and antennas fit as well. holding a piece of "paper" that can always reflect a current source of truth, or be etched and locked to never changed.

Orwell is spinning in his grave at the phrase "a current source of truth"

there are plenty of temporal truths relative to their frame. "hours worked this week" or "percent complete."

you might also be tracking a moving object, and as that object relocates geographically, different types of sensors pick it up, and the device saying "ive found it" changes. each sensor is the source of truth.

if those things were printed on standard paper, they can be false moments after they are printed.

There was some science fiction movie I once saw that initially seemed to happen in contemporary times. Only when the protagonist opened the trunk of their car and opened the paper map it was revealed that the paper is actually a screen.

Edit: it was Babylon A.D. I'd really like to have such map: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67d50vpqqC8.

While I agree that's somewhat ridiculous, just look at tesla and their integrated tablets. He had the right idea with integrating more technology into cars.

Eh. Previously on HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8509788

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9683013

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