An excerpt from Gibson's Neuromancer
Just read this while trying to finish this book after 1.5 years of reading it(it's a small book, and I read lots of technical books /excuses). I really like the flow of the entire thing, but the last couple of sentences really connected with me. I love the ambiguity injected into the last fragment. I understand the feeling he's conveying because of how it's written. aksljdfjklsm
"Case had always taken it for granted that the real bosses, the kingpins in a given industry, would be both more and less than people. He'd seen it in the men who'd crippled him in Memphis, he'd seen Wage affect the semblance of it in Night City, and it had allowed him to accept Armitage's flatness and lack of feeling. He'd always imagined it as a gradual and willing accommodation of the machine, the system, the parent organism. It was the root of street cool, too, the knowing posture which implied connection, invisible lines up to hidden levels of influence."
In related news, I've been more inclined to finish this book, so that I can move onto more of his work(and other futuristic/cyberpunk etc..) based on some other things that I'm doing and thinking about lately. I'm learning Android(mobile phone) development, as well as micro-controller programming(really small devices). Mobile phones will be the central processing units of our first, powerful, wearable computers. I'm imagining a sensor network, comfortably placed throughout the body. Well integrated into clothes: special purpose jackets, sensor based undergarments to be used with any outfit. All communicating data about one's body and surrounding environment back to the phone via a wireless protocol. The collected data informing us via simple feedback via touch, electricity or phasing colors in our peripheral vision. Non intrusive, as subconsciously detectable as possible. A sixth sense, a Spidey sense... tingling.
"Case had always taken it for granted that the real bosses, the kingpins in a given industry, would be both more and less than people. He'd seen it in the men who'd crippled him in Memphis, he'd seen Wage affect the semblance of it in Night City, and it had allowed him to accept Armitage's flatness and lack of feeling. He'd always imagined it as a gradual and willing accommodation of the machine, the system, the parent organism. It was the root of street cool, too, the knowing posture which implied connection, invisible lines up to hidden levels of influence."
In related news, I've been more inclined to finish this book, so that I can move onto more of his work(and other futuristic/cyberpunk etc..) based on some other things that I'm doing and thinking about lately. I'm learning Android(mobile phone) development, as well as micro-controller programming(really small devices). Mobile phones will be the central processing units of our first, powerful, wearable computers. I'm imagining a sensor network, comfortably placed throughout the body. Well integrated into clothes: special purpose jackets, sensor based undergarments to be used with any outfit. All communicating data about one's body and surrounding environment back to the phone via a wireless protocol. The collected data informing us via simple feedback via touch, electricity or phasing colors in our peripheral vision. Non intrusive, as subconsciously detectable as possible. A sixth sense, a Spidey sense... tingling.