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To: Road Walker who wrote (357108)	11/5/2007 5:02:06 PM
From: combjelly	Respond to of 1576281

"Future?" Well, we are sort of minus the US/USSR dust up and the LA quake, but we do seem to be on track with everything else. Gibson, along with Brunner, wrote some of those rare stories which picked out trends long before they were obvious. Of the two, Gibson has the bleaker vision. en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org When both novels were written, the Internet was still in its infancy. I was on the Internet in 1984, when Neuromancer was published. The Internet has changed a lot since then...