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Tuesday, January 24, 2006

Neuromancer


Why are we reading a novel in a writing class if the class is about digital writing and not novel writing? There are a few different things that come to mind when thinking this through.

First there is the subject matter of the novel. It is about cyberspace and computers, both of which are incredibly present in our culture today. Our entire world has essentially come to depend on computers for everyday function. Some of the vocabulary in this novel has become vernacular in some respects. In reading this novel, we can compare what the author thought of computers back in the 80's as opposed to what they are today.

This novel is Sci-Fi because it touches on abstract ideas. Notions of people being people having microchips implanted underneath their skin is something that while it still hasn't happened, perhaps will occur in the future, hopefully the very distant future.

Considering the vocabulary in the novel and the recent developments in technology and entertainment (namely The Matrix movies) some of this once counterculture has become more maintstream.

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