March 7 - 8 of Wands

A very positive, action-y card. Progress towards the future!

Well... I have to admit I haven't actually read any Gibson... in part because the spatial metaphor for cyberspace and the resulting aesthetics and ideas around that don't really do much for me lol. I'm a documents freak!

The spatial metaphors in general seem to have become totally divorced from "the effect of networks" as well... VR has been reduced to either solitary gaming or being an awkward homunculus among people you already do work meetings with IRL and the metaverse is just a big stupid mall...

I feel like ultimately I'm always kind of dissatisfied with how technology and particularly the internet is depicted in realist or sf fiction... it's either this OTT realm of moral dissipation and darkness reefer madness style, or just like boring relitigation of the author's twitter arguments... neither of which really get at both the joy and agony this occasionally surreal experience has brought to my life... maybe the closest thing to a good internet novel or a good virtuality novel for me is Bernhard's Correction? lol sorry I'm being a bit of a buzzkill on this one... it's hard to think of fiction that has presented a really beautiful progressive dream of what the internet could be like.