Gibson “re-calibrated” Agency, his adroit Future(s) Is Now novel, then still a work in progress, pursuant to the calamitous results of our 2016 Presidential Election. Cherish is the word that I use to describe. UNISS: “Untethered Noetic Irregular Support System” (page 68). “She’s an intermittently hierarchical array, complexly conterminous” (page 36). She’s one of the Nereids they’re sea nymphs. If all-gender Snapchat glut reached critical mass oohing over Ava, that smart sex-bomb bot in the 2015 movie Ex Machina, William Gibson’s Agency (Berkley, 2020) gifts us with (“kinda sorta”) one, up close and personal, if disembodied Eunice, who comports in her select tele-present terms, as “culturally African-American,” “Pronoun, she.” An AI upload hybrid for which overheated readers can host friendly fire/side, warm and fuzzy feelings! In Greek, Eunice spells Joyous Victory. It was patterned, someone had told him, on something called a Dymaxion, though he’d never bothered to look the term up.Įmotion pictures.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |