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- From: jason@wc20.writer.yorku.ca (Jason Nolan)
- Subject: Re: CyberTrendies - Mondo 2000, etc..
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.193734.13800@newshub.ccs.yorku.ca>
- Keywords: spazz pilots
- Sender: news@newshub.ccs.yorku.ca (USENET News System)
- Organization: York University
- References: <Bz3tpJ.DDM@cs.vu.nl>
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 19:37:34 GMT
- Lines: 40
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- In article <Bz3tpJ.DDM@cs.vu.nl> ikuz@cs.vu.nl (Kuz I) writes:
- > Well I just saw Mondo 200 for the first time a couple of days ago.
- > My Reaction? - Disappointment at best.
- >
- > After more then a year of hearing people talk about Mondo 2000 in the
- > alt.cyber* newsgroups I was expecting something that would reflect what
- > cyberpunk really is ( or at least what I think it really is ). What I
- found
- > was just a glossy magazine with people wearing jockstraps with
- microchips
- > or portable phones on them, lots of VR ads and `some' articles. It
- reminded
- > me of a sort of GQ ( Gentlemans Quarterly ) or SIXTEEN, or whatever for
- > techno/Cyber Trendies.
- >
- > What I like most about about CP is that you can see it happening before
- > your very eyes: new technology being developed ( VR, Smartcards ), and
- the l
- > loss of freedom that it brings to people, buisness becoming more and
- more
- > powerful, cities expanding ( soon to create a 'Sprawl' ), and so on.
-
- >
- > my condolences :-)
- > Ihor.
- >
- You got it, Ihor. We've already fetishized the future. These folks who
- are "riding the Silicon wave" have bought the glossy toys without
- realizing that they're more likely to become one of Tally's biggest fans,
- running after simstim stars, rather than burning any chrome. If you
- remember the boy in Chrome who'd just traded his eyes for some cheap nerve
- destroying artificials, you may realize that you see him every day posting
- requests for help with HomeBrew VR.
-
- I'll wait until the subversive elements are a little deeper than the Jock
- Strap.
-
- Sympathetically yours %^{)
-
- Gap Fizz
-