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I don’t actually have a good handle on the main diffs between Gibsonian and Stephensonian futures. I’ve read 1 G and 2 S. What are the key diffs? Is it like Orwell vs Huxley?
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a subreddit pummeling a hedge fund into the ground is yet more proof that we got the stephenson cyberpunk future instead of the gibson cyberpunk future
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I think it's more doomer vs. accelerationist. One gets the feeling at the end of Diamond Age that things are looking up, however oddly. By contrast, I've never finished a Gibson book and felt hopeful for what came next.
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Cyberpunk was apparently inevitable. Stephenson is at least also hopeful that there's a path through, rather than just a price marker stamping a cost on a face, forever.