Sublime
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The Jarre was decorated in a dated, nameless style from the previous century, an uneasy blend of Japanese traditional and pale Milanese plastics, but everything seemed to wear a subtle film, as though the bad nerves of a million customers had somehow attacked the mirrors and the once glossy plastics, leaving each surface fogged with something that
... See moreWilliam Gibson • Neuromancer (Sprawl Trilogy Book 1)
Vilayanur S. Ramachandran and Sandra Blakeslee, Phantoms in the Brain (New York: Quill, 1999).
Peter Watts • Echopraxia (Firefall Book 2)


it would be replacing the user by a different person.
David Deutsch • The Fabric of Reality
Stop hustling and you sank without a trace, but move a little too swiftly and you’d break the fragile surface tension of the black market;
William Gibson • Neuromancer
it is only a matter of a few years, soon after the turn of the millennium, until bandwidth becomes sufficiently capacious to make technically possible the “metaverse,” the alternative, cyberspace world imagined by the science fiction novelist Neal Stephenson.
James Dale Davidson, Lord William Rees-Mogg • The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age
What are the major challenges we face?... See more
Let’s go for global warming, peak oil and ubiquitous computing.
Ubiquitous computing?
Totally ubiquitous computing. One of the things our grandchildren will find quaintest about us is that we distinguish the digital from the real, the virtual from the real. In the future, that will become literally