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- From: Owen.Coughlan@f390.n514.z17.illusion.tpg.org (Owen Coughlan)
- Newsgroups: alt.cyberspace
- Subject: Benedikt's Cyberspace
- Message-ID: <727321554.AA06230@illusion.tpg.org>
- Date: 17 Jan 93 19:02:00 GMT
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- > (William Gibson even admits that he came up with the word
- > first, then
- > the concept followed).
-
- You might be interested in a program on Gibson produced by the CBC (Canadian
- Broadcasting commission) as an episode of "Adrienne Clarkson Presents" The
- Show was based arond Gibson and gave an inadequate (but useful for the novice)
- descritpion of Gibson, the "world" he created, and the influence he has had on
- contemporary culture (technological and aesthetic).
-
- You may be interested to know he is very wary of the entire movement -- he
- tends to "disown" the cyber-punk culture. Most of them have missed the point
- of his book (and of many SF novels) -- Science Fiction doesn't predict the
- future, it attempts to avoid it. Gibson has had people approach him with
- machines they built inspired by his book. In the interview he expressed the
- opinion that such people have obviously missed "the point" of his book.
-
- In other words, before you embrace this shiny gritty nasty glamourous
- dangerous (and embarrAsingly cinematic) underbelly of technology, take a step
- back and see what it's really about!
-
- > PPS: Legal question:
- > If I develop a workable cyberspace system, can W.
- > Gibson sue me
- > for a piece of it????
-
- I doubt it. If he had Trade Marked the word, maybe. I think it has become a
- piece of contemporary language -- like Cyberpunk, or Star Wars. Lucas tried to
- sue the pantagon for using the name of his movie as part of their weapons
- project and the case was thrown out of court.
-
- Question: WHAT DO YOU HAVE IN MIND? I'm not out to steal your ideas, I'm just
- curious about the feasibility (or necessity) of something called
- "Cyberspace".
-
- Also, do you know anything about "Tupple-space"? It's a system for sharing
- computers in a paralell processing system, but I'd like more details if you
- have themn.
-
- Anyway, good luck.
-