Re: [microsound] (OT) neuromancer soundtrack/film - was snow crash

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> I guess I'm just protective of this film because it was one of the things
> that inspired my using 3-d software to visualize the future of the net

More power to you.  Far be it from me to step on one's inspiration.  I
always smile and check myself when people find value in things I don't
like.

> (which to me the surrealism they introduced when someone was interfacing
> was
> quite similar to the ideas I had and couldn't formalize and it helped me
> get
> over my usual writers block)and because Gibson is still my favorite author
> (the bridge books are amazing).  I want to believe that it's something
> better than it was.

What was depicted in that movie and is described in the gibson novels may
be getting closer to real.  As I have posted to this ist before: go read
about Jaron Lanier and avatars

>So the movie in my head (not the one I saw) is cool,
> It's funny how malleable one's memory is.

about this I have a quote:
"So little do we see a tree exactly and completely as to its leaves,
branches, colors and forms. It is so much easier to imagine an
approximation of a tree. ... We invent the largest part of the thing
experienced and can hardly be compelled not to observe some process with
the eyes of an "inventor". All this wants to say that we are from time
immemorial accustomed to lying. Or to say it more virtuously and slyly,
hence pleasantly: we are much greater artists than we know."
-Nietszche

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