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From: hobie@sq.UUCP
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Subject: Re: who does it... // State of the art today?
Message-ID: <1987Sep27.142539.3640@sq.uucp>
Date: Sun, 27-Sep-87 14:25:39 EDT
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Posted: Sun Sep 27 14:25:39 1987
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Chris Guthrie (chris@pyramid.UUCP) writes:
>Gibson is very cautious about the appearance of the world
>inside the net.  Tron couldn't be that cautious.  Disney
>Productions had to use pictures that we could understand
>and objects that we see everyday.  Gibson adds to the mystique
>of his novels by only allowing us small views into the minds
>of his cowboys.

I think of cyberspace as looking like the game Marble Madness.  Black
ICE is those little green carnivorous slinkies and the black marbles.

"Case dodged past the ominously circling black sphere and dashed for the
green funnel. Just ahead he could see the goal flags fluttering in an 
electronic breeze. He accelerated, only a few metres from safety. Suddenly,
the music stopped and giant red letters ahead announced "GAME OVER". He was
flatlined.

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