[lbo-talk] Neuromancer

Andy andy274 at gmail.com
Tue Oct 6 05:08:49 PDT 2009


On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 2:34 AM, <dredmond at efn.org> wrote:


> Come to think of it, several of the characters in that amazing, unnerving,
> and indispensable book are virtual anagrams of the future BRIC powers --
> with some pardonable geographic slippages: Turkey and Eastern Europe are
> proxies for Russia, China is there as the Kuang, etc. Only India is
> missing, interestingly.

Did anybody see that coming in 1984? We were still hearing "Domo arigato, Mr. Roboto" on the radio.

-- Andy



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