> Capitalist reality selling the depiction of a machine-run slave-state
> simulation and making big money from it's destruction (assuming the thing
> existed to begin with). Impressive.
Dangerous. Mustn't let the human crops get ideas. That's why 6% of California's schoolteachers are about to be fired.
> Apart from all that, did you enjoy the film?
William Gibson's reaction was pretty similar to mine: "They got it mostly right." There were a few nitpicky holes in the plot, but I hadn't realized it was the first of a trilogy. What made it work is that, like all great sci-fi, all the technological metaphors turn back into micropolitical categories.
-- DRR