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From: joel@mit-amt.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Max Headroom
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Date: Fri, 6-Nov-87 20:31:38 EST
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Are all you people so out of touch you can't recognize heavy sarcasm 
without a  :-) ?  Makes me wonder...

Rather than flaming and counter-flaming about Max being canceled, why
not talk about things which were the original intent of the group?
Only one person had anything constructive to say about it (how to
conduct a letter writing campaign).

Gibson's world is far from eutopia, but as far as overpopulated,
polluted, post-nuclear scenarios are concerned, it's pretty rosy.  My
major problem with his world is that except perhaps for the neural
technology, I think it will happen a lot sooner than he places it.  My
"conservative" guess for most of the stuff is 2010-2020.  Think what
life was like back in 1957 for comparison, and then remember to
account for the exponential growth in human knowledge and technology.
Wonder what Gibson will write when he finds out about nanotech?
 
joel