I guess if you like 80's films enough you might get a little heart flutter kick out of it but otherwise it is pretty bad. The acting is horrendous, the costumes are laughable, the dialogue, horrible. If you haven't seen the movie, I'm not sure if you should. I have never read the short story, though I plan to, of course. "With Jones to help me figure things out, I'm getting to be the most technical boy in town."įirst off, as I'm sure most know, this book (& movie) are based on the short story, Johnny Mnemonic, by cyberpunk author, William Gibson. This is an amazing idea especially knowing that it was written in 1981, before they even had these micro memory chips! He has had cybernetic surgery to have a data storage system implanted in his head and allows him to store digital data too sensitive to risk transmission on computer networks.
Johnny Mnemonic the protagonist is a data trafficker. This story also introduces the character Molly, who plays a prominent role in Gibson's Sprawl trilogy of novels. Jones is hooked on some hardcore drugs which he developed more than just a habit for during a war that he was used in while he was in the navy.
Johnny eventually has to go to his friend Jones who is a very intelligent retired "navy dolphin" (yeah, an-actual dolphin), that is called a "SQUID". It has tech-action and Johnny who just so happen to be junkies (in the technical scene) and just as crazy or crazier as he his.
This is 1981 William Gibson cyberpunk! This short story even predates his Sprawl trilogy of novels and it has so much of what is to come of his writing's just packed into a single short story, called "Johnny Mnemonic".
I'd had to turn both those twelve-gauge shells from brass stock, on the lathe, and then load then myself I'd had to dig up an old microfiche with instructions for hand-loading cartridges I'd had to build a lever-action press to seat the primers―all very tricky. These days, though, you have to be pretty technical before you can even aspire to crudeness. So I decided to get as crude as possible. "I put the shotgun in an Adidas bag and padded it out with four pairs of tennis socks, not my style at all, but that was what I was aiming for: If they think you're crude, go technical if they think you're technical, go crude.
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