GIBSON: Prophecies of Past Futures

[@Nykandros]

Another IFELSE post? Just in time for lunch

[@ifelse10110]

I hope you had a good lunch !

[@StreetSurfersAlex]

Just wanted to let you know that your content is amazing and the videos are really well done

[@ifelse10110]

Hey :) Thanks so much for the compliment and the comment. It made my day !

[@przemysawseredyszyn1405]

Would love to see an essay from you about the influences on Gibson. E.g. Escape from New York's influence on Neuromancer makes John Carpenter not only one of the fathers of Synthwave - musical genre commonly associated with Cyberpunk, but also of Cyberpunk itself.

[@ifelse10110]

Thanks, yea I'll consider it for sure. I rreally need to explore the music of cyberpunk more - but I wouldn't be in anyway qualified to make a video about it. It would take me years probably to be in a stage I'd feel comfortable discussing it

[@gardnerunderhill3661]

Gibson’s early works had a profound impact on me. I grow in the Louisiana and had spent time with relatives in Tennessee. I could see people I knew and understood in his works. I too had read POGO as a child. It too had an impact on a young me. At least I had my parents my entire childhood.

[@seanjay9457]

The chaos in his novels I think is something we can all relate too... I lost a family member very suddenly and I remember the moment I was told about it to this day. And IFELSE is right, it's as if an incredibly impacted event in my life happened off page. Never thought about it like that. I actually now want to check out the pogo comics.

[@gardnerunderhill3661]

@@seanjay9457 There is a line from the Pogo comics I remember to this day. “We have met the enemy, and he is us.” I find that relevant in today’s political climate.

[@ifelse10110]

@@gardnerunderhill3661 It is a fairly reoccurring theme in Cyberpunk that we are our own apocalypse. There is no alien force its just us. Also thank you so much for your comments !

[@shailajapathania8211]

Wow, such an excellent perspective on Gibson! Loving the consistent video releases and well thought content! Keep up the awesome work! 💥

[@ifelse10110]

😂 Thank you

[@shailajapathania8211]

​@@ifelse10110Oh I am damn serious. I didn't know about Gibson. But your good story telling and good graphics kept me engaged throughout the video! So keep it up! ✨🐑

[@richardagar7830]

Just found your channel brilliant stuff great video keep them coming thank you!

[@ifelse10110]

Thanks for the nice commnet :)

[@pHee3podcast]

Yea this is 🔥🔥🔥 keep up the good work

[@ifelse10110]

Thank you :) Working on a new video for next week !

[@Scott-n6m]

Just found this channel today loving your content I’ve never connected Gibson’s character arcs with fatalism before which is almost embarrassingly obvious now that I think about it thanks for your insights

[@ifelse10110]

Thanks :)

[@williamchamberlain2263]

_Neuromancer_ Though the whole trilogy is great, and I enjoyed _Virtual Light_ a lot.

[@alkeryn1700]

a lot of efforts into making these videos, i'm enabling notifications for you

[@ifelse10110]

Thank you :) I am going to commit to one release every 4 weeks. So about 12-14 videos per year. I simply cannot produce videos faster than that. I hope you will enjoy my future content and I wont let you down !

[@sandrafaith]

Great video! But as of this comment, Gibson's still alive. Edit: Just saw the part about "future works" so you obviously did know this, whoops, but use of the past tense made me think initially that you didn't. My bad

[@ifelse10110]

I do need to clean up my use of tenses and become more consistent in writing, but yea he is still alive :) Thank you for the comment !

[@nickchen1134]

Stunning new channel, also visually. Can you drop some information about the origin of these water color pictures?

[@brendanmcnally9145]

Brilliantly done! Thanks!

[@ifelse10110]

Glad you enjoyed it !

[@Joe_VanCleave]

An intelligent perspective on Gibson, thank you! Also, try cleaning the heads and adjust tracking! /jk

[@ifelse10110]

Haha, thanks for the comment :)

[@1wiz1]

more cyberpunk insights please let's talk about simulacra and simulations by baudrillard

[@ifelse10110]

I'm working on it ! I have a few books queued up - and I have a new video coming out this weekend :)

[@culturadocaractere]

very nice channel man!

[@ifelse10110]

Thank you :)

[@danieldejesusfigueredoorop1428]

Will you cover more from Gibson? Like the Bridge trilogy, perchance?

[@ifelse10110]

I'll take a look for sure, my next video is actually a book analysis from a different Author. I'll get around to his other series, however I think the Sprawl trilogy really is his most impactful work.

[@bobbymobetta]

​@ifelse10110 while I agree completely on your feeling about The Sprawl Trilogy and Neuromancer specifically as perhaps THE most influential sequence of fiction writings and regardless, certainly His most inpactful works [that impact if anything seems to still be making the same impact on new readers as my first experience with Neuromancer had - the only book in my life that I've ever read, closed the back cover, taken a potty break... and then flipped back to the first page... and first punch; ) "The sky above..." starting to reach perhaps their highest arching points - though personally I'm positive that we'll see another Full Force wave of Gibsomulacra making the rounds before we reach the halfway point of the century] BUT With that said, and one final point to illustrate what Neuromancer has meant to me ever since the first day I opened it; many of my friend groups, guys most specifically, though not at all exclusively, often consume visual media like movies and television in a manner that makes my parent's generation nauseous. I'll watch Star Wars [episode IV] at basically any given moment. The animes that remain in my top 10 to 20 shows I will consume in this same way: at any time, and over and over. Indeed, as someone in addiction recovery, I can't help but to sometimes note that my "binge viewing" habits look an awful lot like the actions of a not sober me. Neuromancer is the only novel that has ever been elevated into the space where I manage and encounter my own addiction behaviors, habits and countermeasures... or ICE if you will 😂😅. To whit: Neuromancer I read a physical copy every summer and usually end up -if I take the time to pick up one my dozens of copies of to enjoy, ill most likely then pick up and re-read the whole trilogy. sometimes I'll listen to Neuromancer again as an audio book a few times in a year. Occasionally, a specific aspect of Gibson's mythologies may re-capture me for a tangent and I might spend a month re-listeninf to sections of Count Zero until I feel like Bobby, and the "Wilsons" he stacks -his n00btastic attempts to nail the style he is only for the first time interacting with- while simultaneously outing himself to each progressive"true heavy scene player" he encounters- so clear are the delinations of Bobby's persona and the projection he hopes his peers identify with his personality, I'm almost moved to Utter a sound of anxiety fear or pain, the way re-examining an embarrassing memory may cause you to have to physically shake it off. In these ways, Gibson is the author most important to my own formative years😂

[@bobbymobetta]

All of that said: the Bridge Trilogy - certainly not so dark, offers a similar level of the uncanny moments, an augmented Reality wearable is one of the first things introduced... but even mote.interesting: Idoru seems to play the entire decades-long private joke.that is The Gorillaz out with a single premise- when a human rock star announces his engagement to a holographic AI construct

[@bobbymobetta]

And though neuromancer impacted my life, the other trilogies impact it various aspects for business. It's the blue ancient trilogy that really had an profound impact on how I approached certain concepts in the work place, The bridge trilogy had more impact for me on how I considered art as it was as I consumed it and how I created it and but their condition. Nothing to pair to the sprawl chair trilogy in actually affecting. My thought process about how I would go about living my own life. It's just very rare I feel for a writer to show such consistent poise, over such a long period