WILLIAM GIBSON & FRANK TIPLER GIVE UP: FUTURE OVER

[wombat_socho]

Silicon.com interviews the founder of cyberpunk regarding his new novel Spook Country and how Neuromancer has aged.
Apparently things are changing too fast for Mr. Gibson to write SF any more. WTF?

Sort of related: Frank Tipler bitches out Professor Death for living in the past when it comes to interstellar travel. Quoth Tipler:

Human will NEVER engage in interstellar travel. Only human downloads and artificial intelligences. Carrying full size human bodies, active or frozen, is too inefficient.

Fine, Frank, you stay here and send your starwisp to Alpha Centauri; the rest of us have a rendezvous with destiny out beyond the Hinder Stars. Guys like you used to say Goddard's rockets wouldn't work and Oppenheimer's bomb wouldn't go off, so I'm not too worried about your defeatist attitude on star travel.

Comments

I have to say...

[edwarddain.livejournal.com]

Gibson has become an increasingly cynical fuck since the mid-90's...

Re: I have to say...

[wombat-socho.livejournal.com]

We're not living in his future and he's NOT HAPPY. :3

Re: I have to say...

[edwarddain.livejournal.com]

LOL!

Re: I have to say...

[wombat-socho.livejournal.com]

Y RLY...the whole thing came off like Colonel Blimp lecturing the natives on proper deportment, although that could be just me.

[wombat-socho.livejournal.com]

Nope, I haven't, but I'll start looking for him now. Thanks for the tip!

[edwarddain.livejournal.com]

Very, very, very well worth picking up!

[wombat-socho.livejournal.com]

*puts very large check mark next to this name*

[wombat-socho.livejournal.com]

You do realize I'm leaving the state in less than a week, right?