Comments on: Ubiquitous computing normative future and sci-fi http://liftlab.com/think/nova/2007/09/14/ubiquitous-computing-normative-future-and-sci-fi/ mind/tech bazar from outer space Sun, 06 Jul 2008 08:52:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=wordpress-mu-1.2.1 By: » Normative Futures Chris Lott http://liftlab.com/think/nova/2007/09/14/ubiquitous-computing-normative-future-and-sci-fi/#comment-460326 » Normative Futures Chris Lott Wed, 12 Mar 2008 06:58:12 +0000 http://liftlab.com/think/nova/2007/09/14/ubiquitous-computing-normative-future-and-sci-fi/#comment-460326 [...] Nicolas Nova highlights a very interesting quote from Allucquère Rosanne Stone’s paper “Will the Real Body Please Stand Up?”, which I quote in full: “Neuromancer reached the hackers who had been radicalized by George Lucas’s powerful cinematic evocation of humanity and technology infinitely extended, and it reached the technologically literate and socially disaffected who were searching for social forms that could transform the fragmented anomie that characterized life in Silicon Valley and all electronic industrial ghettos. In a single stroke, Gibson’s powerful vision provided for them the imaginal public sphere and refigured discursive community that established the grounding for the possibility of a new kind of social interaction. As with Paul and Virginia in the time of Napoleon and Dupont de Nemours, Neuromancer in the time of Reagan and DARPA is a massive intertextual presence not only in other literary productions of the 1980s, but in technical publications, conference topics, hardware design, and scientific and technological discourses in the large.” [...] […] Nicolas Nova highlights a very interesting quote from Allucquère Rosanne Stone’s paper “Will the Real Body Please Stand Up?”, which I quote in full: “Neuromancer reached the hackers who had been radicalized by George Lucas’s powerful cinematic evocation of humanity and technology infinitely extended, and it reached the technologically literate and socially disaffected who were searching for social forms that could transform the fragmented anomie that characterized life in Silicon Valley and all electronic industrial ghettos. In a single stroke, Gibson’s powerful vision provided for them the imaginal public sphere and refigured discursive community that established the grounding for the possibility of a new kind of social interaction. As with Paul and Virginia in the time of Napoleon and Dupont de Nemours, Neuromancer in the time of Reagan and DARPA is a massive intertextual presence not only in other literary productions of the 1980s, but in technical publications, conference topics, hardware design, and scientific and technological discourses in the large.” […]

]]> By: Chris Lott » Blog Archive » Normative Futures http://liftlab.com/think/nova/2007/09/14/ubiquitous-computing-normative-future-and-sci-fi/#comment-459554 Chris Lott » Blog Archive » Normative Futures Mon, 03 Mar 2008 21:13:44 +0000 http://liftlab.com/think/nova/2007/09/14/ubiquitous-computing-normative-future-and-sci-fi/#comment-459554 [...] Nicolas Nova highlights a very interesting quote from Allucquère Rosanne Stone’s paper “Will the Real Body Please Stand Up?”, which I quote in full: “Neuromancer reached the hackers who had been radicalized by George Lucas’s powerful cinematic evocation of humanity and technology infinitely extended, and it reached the technologically literate and socially disaffected who were searching for social forms that could transform the fragmented anomie that characterized life in Silicon Valley and all electronic industrial ghettos. In a single stroke, Gibson’s powerful vision provided for them the imaginal public sphere and refigured discursive community that established the grounding for the possibility of a new kind of social interaction. As with Paul and Virginia in the time of Napoleon and Dupont de Nemours, Neuromancer in the time of Reagan and DARPA is a massive intertextual presence not only in other literary productions of the 1980s, but in technical publications, conference topics, hardware design, and scientific and technological discourses in the large.” [...] […] Nicolas Nova highlights a very interesting quote from Allucquère Rosanne Stone’s paper “Will the Real Body Please Stand Up?”, which I quote in full: “Neuromancer reached the hackers who had been radicalized by George Lucas’s powerful cinematic evocation of humanity and technology infinitely extended, and it reached the technologically literate and socially disaffected who were searching for social forms that could transform the fragmented anomie that characterized life in Silicon Valley and all electronic industrial ghettos. In a single stroke, Gibson’s powerful vision provided for them the imaginal public sphere and refigured discursive community that established the grounding for the possibility of a new kind of social interaction. As with Paul and Virginia in the time of Napoleon and Dupont de Nemours, Neuromancer in the time of Reagan and DARPA is a massive intertextual presence not only in other literary productions of the 1980s, but in technical publications, conference topics, hardware design, and scientific and technological discourses in the large.” […]

]]> By: AG http://liftlab.com/think/nova/2007/09/14/ubiquitous-computing-normative-future-and-sci-fi/#comment-441223 AG Mon, 17 Sep 2007 22:47:56 +0000 http://liftlab.com/think/nova/2007/09/14/ubiquitous-computing-normative-future-and-sci-fi/#comment-441223 Yeah, dude - the yakuza assassin with the monomolecular sword spooled inside his false thumbtip was what r0xx0r3d my world, at the tender age of, what, 13? And that was "Johnny Mnemonic," which showed up in OMNI years before I snatched up the Ace Special Editions "Neuromancer." ; . ) I do agree that 70s and very early 1980s SF does furnish the, uh, consensual hallucination that is ubicomp. I hear Genevieve Bell and Paul Dourish are working on a paper very much along these lines. Yeah, dude - the yakuza assassin with the monomolecular sword spooled inside his false thumbtip was what r0xx0r3d my world, at the tender age of, what, 13? And that was “Johnny Mnemonic,” which showed up in OMNI years before I snatched up the Ace Special Editions “Neuromancer.” ; . )

I do agree that 70s and very early 1980s SF does furnish the, uh, consensual hallucination that is ubicomp. I hear Genevieve Bell and Paul Dourish are working on a paper very much along these lines.

]]> By: gideonstrauss.com » Blog Archive » The normative future, circa 1984 http://liftlab.com/think/nova/2007/09/14/ubiquitous-computing-normative-future-and-sci-fi/#comment-440892 gideonstrauss.com » Blog Archive » The normative future, circa 1984 Sat, 15 Sep 2007 17:11:12 +0000 http://liftlab.com/think/nova/2007/09/14/ubiquitous-computing-normative-future-and-sci-fi/#comment-440892 [...] – A.R. Stone, quoted by Nicolas Nova. [...] […] – A.R. Stone, quoted by Nicolas Nova. […]

]]> By: Ruminate » Blog Archive » Normative Futures http://liftlab.com/think/nova/2007/09/14/ubiquitous-computing-normative-future-and-sci-fi/#comment-440770 Ruminate » Blog Archive » Normative Futures Sat, 15 Sep 2007 00:39:42 +0000 http://liftlab.com/think/nova/2007/09/14/ubiquitous-computing-normative-future-and-sci-fi/#comment-440770 [...] Nicolas Nova highlights a very interesting quote from Allucquère Rosanne Stone’s paper “Will the Real Body Please Stand Up?”, which I also will quote in full: “Neuromancer reached the hackers who had been radicalized by George Lucas’s powerful cinematic evocation of humanity and technology infinitely extended, and it reached the technologically literate and socially disaffected who were searching for social forms that could transform the fragmented anomie that characterized life in Silicon Valley and all electronic industrial ghettos. In a single stroke, Gibson’s powerful vision provided for them the imaginal public sphere and refigured discursive community that established the grounding for the possibility of a new kind of social interaction. As with Paul and Virginia in the time of Napoleon and Dupont de Nemours, Neuromancer in the time of Reagan and DARPA is a massive intertextual presence not only in other literary productions of the 1980s, but in technical publications, conference topics, hardware design, and scientific and technological discourses in the large.” [...] […] Nicolas Nova highlights a very interesting quote from Allucquère Rosanne Stone’s paper “Will the Real Body Please Stand Up?”, which I also will quote in full: “Neuromancer reached the hackers who had been radicalized by George Lucas’s powerful cinematic evocation of humanity and technology infinitely extended, and it reached the technologically literate and socially disaffected who were searching for social forms that could transform the fragmented anomie that characterized life in Silicon Valley and all electronic industrial ghettos. In a single stroke, Gibson’s powerful vision provided for them the imaginal public sphere and refigured discursive community that established the grounding for the possibility of a new kind of social interaction. As with Paul and Virginia in the time of Napoleon and Dupont de Nemours, Neuromancer in the time of Reagan and DARPA is a massive intertextual presence not only in other literary productions of the 1980s, but in technical publications, conference topics, hardware design, and scientific and technological discourses in the large.” […]

]]> By: csven http://liftlab.com/think/nova/2007/09/14/ubiquitous-computing-normative-future-and-sci-fi/#comment-440706 csven Fri, 14 Sep 2007 15:59:42 +0000 http://liftlab.com/think/nova/2007/09/14/ubiquitous-computing-normative-future-and-sci-fi/#comment-440706 Will have to read this paper; thanks for calling attention to it. But for me, at least, it was his collection of short stories in "Burning Chrome" that wielded the most influence. Perhaps if I'd read "Neuromancer" first... Will have to read this paper; thanks for calling attention to it. But for me, at least, it was his collection of short stories in “Burning Chrome” that wielded the most influence. Perhaps if I’d read “Neuromancer” first…

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