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incredibly well made video, totally deserving of a few extra zeros on that subscriber count

Are the artworks from an actual comic adaptation? I couldn't find any matching the style.

love the style

So good, the 3d elements are amazing, fav video yet

Hyped for this video!

Not to undersell Gibson, he is a wordsmith and a narrative master, but it goes to show how obsession and self documentation can produce a ground breaking piece of art. You are 30 yo? Do you like dinosaurs and or trains more than people at your age should according to your friends and family? Obsess harder I say. Weaponize your autism.

I realised I don't remember enough from Count Zero. Oh well, I guess I will have to read it again 😁

This batch of word salad is punctuated by short sections of clear, explanatory prose. That's the only way anyone can possibly determine this book has any point of view. As far as we are now into that 'future' of computing, it still remains that software programs are not green squares of plastic.

Doesnt matter if It was Fischer or not.But you made a bald statement saying Fischer at 58 would not be that good.In 1977 Fischer played a computer and beat it,if you analyse those games he scored 3000 elo performance.When he stayed in hotel in 1981 he beat another GM 17 blitz games(5min) and won all.Playing in 1992 against Spassky and Comparing Kasparov to player with simular elo of 2550 like Spassky,Fischer scored better in terms of acuracy.Fischer stayed in touch with Peter Leko in 1997 ans 1998 and Fischer would found the best move in just few seconds. Fischer was asked in an interview in 1972 how would he prepare for a 1975 World Chess Championship match and Fischer replied: "I can study games of Spassky that he played after championship or whoever and I just dont have to give all my trics". And thats true mostly,however you can put an argument that he lost both games in Germany in 1976 but those games were not played by Fischer,after 1972 he played only a computer in 1977 and his strength was the same. Fischer didnt lost mutch of his strength over the years and in 1993 Susan Polgar played with him only Fischer random but she said that Fischer is exeptionaly strong in blitz like he wasnt in other formats. Now weather it was Fischer playing onlike or not its not that important but if he would to play Nigel Short he could beat him but he also might not be able to if they played in the 90s than yeah I would say Fischer wins.

Because we're living IN the time of cyberpunk themes. Rampant corporate greed being unchecked and corpos controlling more and more of everything

Cyberpunk used to be "20 minutes into the future", but nowadays, we're already 5 minutes in. The show's already started.

I'm adding this books to my tbr. I'll comeback and comment on it when I've read it.

While I certainly agree w/ you that Gibson did a truly phenomenal job fleshing out the characters in Count Zero (in the entire trilogy for that matter), I feel I must disagree w/ you when you refer to the book's zeitgeist as dystopian. If anything, I'd call Gibson vision in his foundational trilogy truly utopian. I mean death is conqurered, and Man discovers he's not alone in the universe at the conclusion of Mona Lisa Overdrive. I mean, given the choice, who wouldn't chose to live in the world of Neuromancer/Count Zero/Mona Lisa Overdrive rather than in this mindnumbingly depressing here and now?

I’d say cyberpunk is becoming so popular because it’s starting to become reality

Neuromancer is such a goated book, you won't even find the rest of the trilogy in barnes and nobles at least not in mine, it pisses me off. I want the set dammit. Also maybe I misinterpreted the entire book but count zero, to me, felt like it missed the mark and was just a setup book for mona lisa overdrive, like I barely remember anything about count zero but I easily remember the ending of monalisa overdrive and a more griseled molly making a return. I think I just liked the duo that Molly and Case represented so much that when I went into count zero I was already partially uninterested because the lack of characters that I grew to love. SPOILER (Although, I am happy Case probably got the best ending of them all, getting out of the game.)

7:06 silicon valley for sure

It was created in 1980 yet it hasnt even matured. We havent even dived into the full scope of it. Nobody knowns cause it never had been done, only people in neon cities and hacking. What about the small towns. What about the forests What about the science equipment and schools ect

I felt this. Nueromancer is an all time great for me. I played CP 2077 before reading it and realized how mind blowingly foundational Gibson was for the genre. Count zero was kinda tough to read but I'll try again.

Although count zero is a good book, there are still some items of that book that feel rather uninspired. Like the goths in Bobby Newmark's story. It just does not sound original or convincing along with the mods of his side of the story. it is too anachronistic and it does not lend the impact it should have all these years down the road.

My personal opinion is that Sci-Fi genre is about the idea of the future, the world and the tech. I am not so interested about the character internal dilemmas, witty responses and what not. If I want to read about it I will focus on Dostoyevsky or other great writers. But I ma not searching for that in Sci-Fi.

Man I thought I was the only one who considered Count Zero the best in the trilogy. For me there's another reason you didn't touch: in this book, the cyberbabble actually works. You know, how Willian Gibson absolutely buries you in his made-up terms and "fuck you, read the glossary"? Sometimes it works in show-don't-telling this world and you get it through context, sometimes it's truly annoying and even goofy. This is the book it works the best. And about the story: suffice to say I read the trilogy some years ago and basically blackout forgot what the hell was going on with neuromancer. Can't quite remember a singlewhole situation. Turner's whole start with rhe explosive dog and being in a dream with the dutch surgeon guy showing up to tease him every once in a while? Sticked very well to my head. Strange and nostalgic and horrible and stuff

I really enjoyed the songs in the background. Does anyone know which ones were used ?

Шикарный визуал, как и сама подача

Such a mid series. They couldnt hold my interest

From memory, I personally like Neuromancer more since I connected with Case more than any of the characters in Count Zero or Mona Lisa. I liked the arc of him going from wanting to kill himself to slowly regaining his humanity through all the chaos and Molly’s kindness. Count Zero always had a better plot and world building, in my opinion. I can imagine it working as a TV show or movie more than Neuromancer would. Contrary to the video, I actually found the worldbuilding stronger in Count Zero and the characters much weaker. Though it was so cool how each protagonist had their own subgenre tied to their arcs. And Bobby was funny I don’t remember Mona Lisa Overdrive very much. It felt like a step down in stakes honestly, but I still remember enjoying it especially for the child perspective and Mona Lisa’s plot of becoming a clone of Angie. All around an amazing trilogy that still influences me today. The short stories were great too, especially New Rose Hotel

You cannot determine whether a British novel written in the 1940s was intending to espouse a left or right wing message by comparing it to the actions of American political parties in the 2020s. That's not how things work. Also, the Republicans have done plenty of work redefining language for their own political ends. Enhanced interrogation, unlawful combatants, etc, not to mention the video they put out on Project 2025 about straight changing the dictionary terms in official government documents and eliminating words. "Don't say gay." "Don't say climate change." Do some research. As for the novel, Orwell was a British socialist, veteran of the suppression of Burma et al, who hated Stalin so he wrote books about manipulating the masses to accept authoritarianism.

Given how anti-fascist Orwell himself was, I imagine _1984_ was intended to primarily be a cautionary tale against fascism. Very interesting video--thank you! For the "New Speak" section, I'm surprised you didn't mention Florida's legislation "Don't Say Gay"...

Cyberpunk capabilities

Definately Right. Though it borrows from what Boleshiks

I've actually read Neuromancer multiple times, but I never got around to Count Zero. Been meaning too for a while now, I'll take this as a sign!

I am 56 and have been a loner all my life. I have tried on numerous occasions to integrate with society without success. Tech has kept me sane and allowed me to explore art and culture past and present.

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Funny how the news presenter was calling it 'Newspeak' when he meant 'Doublethink'

This is a well made and educational video i really appreciate how you chose not to push a right or left ideology with this video and instead stuck to the facts. You also turned it from right vs left into more of what the book discusses. Thank you for your work!

1:10 No? It's almost entirely the latter. There's nothing fundamentally space-like about the network architecture at all lol.

It's not the right in the US thats degrading the family structure. I don't know where you'd get that idea. The left wants to abort or sterilize the few kids they have, most have multiple partners and run from marriage/parenthood like it's the plague. The right believes in stable loving families where people actually take care of each other

It criticized government, when it gets to big it doesn’t matter what wing it is, both wings are bound and gagged.

me when i dont understand leftist ideology

Orwell had a left-wing bias, but the book in general is critical of authoritarianism. As I understood it (both from reading it and reading analyses), the book was a criticism of what socialism could become, and served much as a warning to his fellow socialists against authoritarianism as a criticism of authoritarianism as a whole. Personally, I also think that it warns against the combination of power and technology, and how future technologists can be used to benefit and aid government control over their people.

Count zero was the first cyberpunk book I've read, in Dutch, called biochips. Besides from some wonky translations I was immediately hooked and got the trioligy in English.

The reason why democratic republic is preferable is because going too far left, communism, or far right, nationalism, is that authoritarian movements demand elimination of opposition. Both the left and right wing have attempted censorship at some point, and we must always be mindful regardless of who represents the state

Left vs right is the wrong question. That confuses economic policies with political structures. A totalitarian government can be either right wing (fascist) or left wing (communist.) The economic model of the right is a partnership between government and private for profit business; think privately owned prisons and charter schools. The economic model of the left is the government owns the means of production.