http://alex.halavais.net/my-little-glovey-dovey/ Things that interest me. Mon, 04 Aug 2003 14:17:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://alex.halavais.net/my-little-glovey-dovey/comment-page-1/#comment-533 Mon, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 /?p=399#comment-533 When I saw Minority Report, I groaned at his data glove and thought “How 1990!” ;)

]]> http://alex.halavais.net/my-little-glovey-dovey/comment-page-1/#comment-534 Mon, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 /?p=399#comment-534 I hear from Aaron Delwiche, who has it on good authority from Anita Shinall that the precrime reports were delivered via punchcard in the short story. None too cinematic, I suppose.

]]> http://alex.halavais.net/my-little-glovey-dovey/comment-page-1/#comment-535 Mon, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 /?p=399#comment-535 Punchcards would have been so much nicer!

]]> http://alex.halavais.net/my-little-glovey-dovey/comment-page-1/#comment-536 Mon, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 /?p=399#comment-536 Dick was never much into playing with new technologies, as far as I can tell from what I have read. Unlike Gibson with his waldos and implants.

]]> http://alex.halavais.net/my-little-glovey-dovey/comment-page-1/#comment-537 Mon, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 /?p=399#comment-537 Though it came as no surprise to me that Gibson is not really very geeky, preferring a typewriter until very recently. Part of the reason I like Stephenson so much is that he is such a neophile as a person, not just writing about a potential future. I think Gibson is a lot like McLuhan in that regard: he is often thought of in a futuristic frame but is really fairly conservative in terms of the technology he is comfortable with.

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