ruminations about architecture and design

Saturday, January 12, 2013

neuromancer

Okay, so they've been working on a film adaptation of Neuromancer for quite some time and they're might be a release within the next 2 years. Didn't the Wachowski brothers already do that? 

I happen to think that the story is unfilmable. Gibson's vision serves to remind us that our primary experience with the internet is still severely 2-dimensional, and will probably remain so for quite some time. The data and computing power required to create some sort of coherent 3-d virtual environment that is convincing enough to attract a significant population is probably fifty years away. Let's file that under long-term predictions by towers of ilium.

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