It takes more than coders to see an operating system past version 1.0; you have to have users too. If there were no Linux advocates then there would be no Linux, at least not as we know it today. I for one am grateful that there are people willing to stick their neck out and try to make solutions work for the first time on Linux.
Because of their pioneering work, the rest of us have the option to deploy on a cheap, fast, flexible and reliable platform. If you'd rather deploy on NT with all it's poor design features and buggy implementation, fine, but don't come crying to us.
Consciousness is not what it thinks it is Thought exists only as an abstraction
Everyone who is interested in this issue should contact D Gartner, who organizes lobbying efforts in favour of open protocols and the like. I've already spoken to her about the Sorenson codec and she has agreed to look into it. If she gets a few more letters about it maybe it'll get prioritized.
Consciousness is not what it thinks it is Thought exists only as an abstraction
I heard from Podlipec that it's useless to talk to Sorenson because in fact Apple and Microsoft have them in their pocket. There's some sort of exclusive licencing deal that means they *can't* release the codec details to open source authors. You have to address Apple, it's the only way.
Consciousness is not what it thinks it is Thought exists only as an abstraction
Maybe what you say is true in the US (though I doubt it) but it's certainly not true in the UK. It was leaked several years ago that the UK domestic secret services have a file on anyone and everyone who has shown signs of potentially belonging to a "counter-culture". This includes the most mundane behaviour - for example everyone who has ever owned a motorcycle is included.
Unfortunately because of the political apathy of the British and our lack of a tradition of constitutional rights there was no uproar.
It might interest you to know that this type of activity isn't confined to the public sector either. Up until a few years ago there was a semi-secret private organisation in the UK called "the Economic League" which kept records of a similar nature on a phenomenal number of people. They would scour local papers and petitions which had been filed for the names of anyone who had ever dared to stick their head up over the parapet. They then sold this information to anyone who would pay. It is well known that the human resources departments of large corporations such as the major banks would routinely vet any job applicant against these files.
The League, whose records were all on paper and thus fell outside the remit of the UK Data Protection Act, apparently closed their offices a few years ago, around the time that the Internet started to take off. Anyone see anything fishy about that?
It may be that they realised their activities would no longer be tolerated. On the other hand it's just as possible that they went underground or moved overseas, in order to continue their business using the new technology and unmolested by tiresome laws about protecting private information.
Consciousness is not what it thinks it is Thought exists only as an abstraction
I've been thinking the same thing myself. Slashdot differs from Usenet in that articles posted to these are more widely distributed, and differs from both Usenet and archived mailing lists in that these also remain visible for longer. Since Slashdot now have more investment resources perhaps Rob and Jeff might think about expanding their searchable archive storage.
In the meantime, posters like Steven should be encouraged to post their work in as many different places as they can.
And Steven should be sure to send his piece (in hardcopy form!) to his congressman. He won't get the most mileage out of his analysis in fora like this one, where he's basically preaching to the choir.
Consciousness is not what it thinks it is Thought exists only as an abstraction
...would as many people have been so likely to start using Linux on a regular basis if the only X server available was commercial and cost at least $100? I know I wouldn't have.
Well I would. In fact I ran Coherent until I heard about Linux. Even then I never really ran X on a regular basis until KDE appeared.
Consciousness is not what it thinks it is Thought exists only as an abstraction
Mind you, to get all the way to excape velocity accelerating at 4g, the track would have to be over 1500km long. And it would all have be kept clean. Suppose you hit a pebble on the track at 11000km/sec?
Consciousness is not what it thinks it is Thought exists only as an abstraction
The article says it'll only cost $75 worth of electricity to get a vehicle into orbit! Are they crazy?
Suppose a moderately sized satellite massing 1 metric tonne:
mass m = 10e3 kg
Escape Velocity v = 11.179e3 m/s
Kinetic Energy E = (mv^2)/2 = 6.2e10 J
In the UK electricity is available to industry for, oh, I don't know, about 5 pence per kiloWatt-hour. Given that the yanks get everything cheaper than we do, lets say they pay 5 cents per kiloWatt-hour:
1 kW/h = 3.6e6 J
Kinetic energy of escape velocity measured in kW/h:
6.2e10 J / 3.6e6 J = 1.7e4
Cost of energy: 1.7e4 * $0.05 = $850
Damn! well it's not $75 for the whole journey but insertion into low earth orbit doesn't mean going the whole way. And it's still phenomenally cheap. Who'd a thunk it?
Now that's the way to get construction materials for a space station up there...
Consciousness is not what it thinks it is Thought exists only as an abstraction
By using the same data on all channels the most problematic error sources (optical crosstalk between channels and such) are minimized and the signal-noise ratio is therefore way better. In other words, they do transmit 80*80gbits/sec of data, but the actual information they transmit is (merely?) 80gbits/sec. So, unfortunately these setups are far from the real thing, but maybe someday...
What optical crosstalk? If that's a problem just paint the damn fibres black.
Consciousness is not what it thinks it is Thought exists only as an abstraction
Of course if they try to control the licencing of this technology they way they (and Apple) have done with the Sorenson codec in order to leverage the dominance of their operating systems, I feel sure they'd be hauled up in front of the courts pretty quickly. They'll surely be forced to allow the same features to appear on other platforms.
Consciousness is not what it thinks it is Thought exists only as an abstraction
WHY has this man been moderated down? The point he raises is not flamebait, it is exactly the point at issue here: Americans are losing their freedoms and the Constitution is not protecting them.
Why? Because:
(1) The US government is entirely controlled by big business which doesn't give a flying fuck about individual liberties; and
(2) Individuals - including Slashdot readers - are too comfortable to get off their asses and demonstrate or even to pick up pen and paper and write to their representative.
Your Constitution is like everything else in the world that is worthwhile and that had to be fought for: USE it... or LOSE it.
If you're thinking it's none of my goddamned Brit business, think again. The whole "democratic" world still, rightly or wrongly, looks to the US for a lead. And whatever you guys let your government get away with, they are bound to try over here. Finally, if a constitution is as important as you Yanks say it is, then how can we Brits (and other Euros) possibly succeed in keeping our governments in check where you guys have already failed?
Just like the next in line at the slaughterhouse, we look across the pond at what is happening now and we very much fear for our own fate as a result.
Like it or not, the entire free world is today depending on the common American man and woman to rein in their government before these antidemocratic horrors multiply any further.
DAMN the Wassenaar agreement!
Consciousness is not what it thinks it is Thought exists only as an abstraction
Fortunately, Linux/Unix is an inherently modular system. Every program is *expected* to have the ability to exchange data with others via stdin and stdout. So you don't really need special hooks for crypto, you just treat it like any other filter. To prevent that, the US Govt would have to ban all forms of Unix, and all incarnations of pipes and sockets on other systems too because this is all that is required to support arbitrary pipelines.
It it only closed proprietary systems like Windows which *need* special APIs for software components to interoperate.
Consciousness is not what it thinks it is Thought exists only as an abstraction
Oh yes, I get the point all right. I even sympathise. I have no brief against greed and ambition - it's what makes the world turn.
But there is no mystery about this man's ambition. Ever since his first success he has had sufficient resources available to him to enable him to reach for yet more wealth. Most of us are greedy given half a chance. But he *can*, so he does.
My point was only to say that the author goes so far to avoid calling a spade a spade which is laughably disingenuous.
Consciousness is not what it thinks it is Thought exists only as an abstraction
4MB Xpert@Play AGP Win95 OSR/2 with DirectX6 and latest ATI drivers SuSE Linux 5.3 with XFree 3.3 AMD K6-233 and AMDK6/2-300 Soyo 5EDM M/B (VIA VP3 chipset) DFI P5XV3 M/B (VIA VP3 chipset) AOpen AX59Pro M/B (VIA MVP3 chipset, revision "CD")
I tried *very* hard to find a home for this card but all combinations of the above software and hardware resulted in frequent and unacceptable glitches every time. I have had no problems with either the STB Velocity 128 (Riva 128) or STB Velocity 4400 (TNT) that I also have.
The fine print in the card documentation on the CDROM is most telling: only Intel CPUs and chipsets are supported. Unfortunately you don't get to see the fine print on the CD before you buy.
What else can I conclude under the circumstances, but that this card - and ATI's support policy - leave a lot to be desired?
Consciousness is not what it thinks it is Thought exists only as an abstraction
There's no real problem for Red Hat. i.e, the Red Hat Europe subsidiary is incorporated outside of the US and they can provide the source code (and binary) rpms on their own servers. The parent US company can provide a URL on their own website without any problems - as long as the code was all developed outside of and remains stored outside of US national borders, they can still make it available to all their customers in the usual manner without actually exporting anything.
*This depends upon the notion that it doesn't count as an "export" when John Smith in the UK can download a file from an ftp server in Europe by clicking on a link provided by a US web server.
Consciousness is not what it thinks it is Thought exists only as an abstraction
You have to laugh at the way the author pussyfoots around Clark's motives. The author claims that Clark just wants to "change the world" when recounting his stated desire for first $10 million, then $100 million, then $1 billion and so on and so on. But we already have a term that describes this form of acquisitiveness very well.
It's called "greed".
Still , I'd be greedy too if I could get away with it.
Consciousness is not what it thinks it is Thought exists only as an abstraction
Like where? It's the video that's the problem, everything else was OK. And the fine print in the documentation for the card clearly states that the card is only intended for systems with an Intel CPU and an Intel chipset. So your success is clearly fortuitous.
Consciousness is not what it thinks it is Thought exists only as an abstraction
This line of argument would be a lot more convincing if not for the fact that non-cyberpunk visions of the future that were not lacking in characterization, plotting, and the other things that too much of the sub-genre's writing were short on hadn't continued to come into existance even as cyberpunk was blooming.
I believe I've dealt with that point already - synchronicity doesn't exclude use of the "post-" appelation.
It's far more reasonable to see this as the maturing of the writers who are so obsessed with this small corner of speculative writing, so it's not post-cyberpunk, it's just adolescent cyberpunk. The cheeks no longer have the infant's rosy blush, but some more substantial values may be developing to make up for that loss of novelty.
As I said, the issue of whether it's a new school or just a branch of the old is moot. For the purpose of this discussion, compare and contrast, it might as well be treated hypothetically as separate.
And as others have said, the biggest new thing about the cyberpunk movement was that there were enough stories with some common tropes being written at the same time to catch Dozois' eye and get a collective name.
This is precisely why there *is* a "post-cyberpunk" school already. Gibson's novel struck such a chord in the heads of techno-savvy alienated youngsters that the meme spread rapidly: books, movies, rock videos, TV ads etc. Before long the imagery was recognisable to everyone, not just teenaged science fiction fans. Having become so established, ten years later a counter-revolution was inevitable. And though the birth of these offshoots may seem early to you, co-existence with the original school still does not introduce doubt as to their parentage.
The triumph of breathless, handwaving technological miracles over such old fashioned story telling values as good characterization has been a recurring pandemic in science fiction. In some ways it's part of the charm of the genre.
That might have been true of science fiction up until the 1950's. Since then science fiction has been divided into two categories - what's usually referred to as sci-fi (trashy pulp "the thing from mars" type stories and movies) and the more thoughtful science fiction which often passes for literature - e.g. Frank Herbert's Dune series.
I for one don't find the former particularly charming, it's cheap and nasty and usually produced by people who have no love of science fiction at all - they are just using a hackneyed old formula to capture a slice of the market.
Consciousness is not what it thinks it is Thought exists only as an abstraction
Yeah...buy an ATI card at your peril - they just *don't work* on motherboards with non-Intel chipsets. Screen glitches galore on your desktop, and poor compatibility with older software.
Consciousness is not what it thinks it is Thought exists only as an abstraction
It's beside the point to argue whether or not such distinctions are valid. All such distinctions are valid in a subjective sense only. And there is clearly a huge stylistic difference between Neuromancer and The Diamond Age.
Others have said in this forum that since cyberpunk isn't dead yet it is too early to announce post-cyberpunk. Well, that's just nonsense too. "post-" appelations are often used to denote an offshoot variant of a yet extant school, when that offshoot is the unambiguous inheritor of the earlier tradition. And Lawrence's definition is just about broad enough to fit the bill.
What Lawrence has done is to identify a trend which is clearly now in full swing: the re-humanisation and de-alienation of visions of the future.
Consciousness is not what it thinks it is Thought exists only as an abstraction
Slashdot Mirror
It takes more than coders to see an operating system past version 1.0; you have to have users too. If there were no Linux advocates then there would be no Linux, at least not as we know it today. I for one am grateful that there are people willing to stick their neck out and try to make solutions work for the first time on Linux.
Because of their pioneering work, the rest of us have the option to deploy on a cheap, fast, flexible and reliable platform. If you'd rather deploy on NT with all it's poor design features and buggy implementation, fine, but don't come crying to us.
Consciousness is not what it thinks it is
Thought exists only as an abstraction
Ok - you want quickies? I just ran across this HILARIOUS site today (not for anyone in President Clinton's family...or anyone easily offended).
Visit and play the following games on-line (without any Java crap either):
The Fabulous Streisand Nose Game
Play "Dolls" In The White House with President Clinton
President Clinton's Fly Tells All
And much much more...
Consciousness is not what it thinks it is
Thought exists only as an abstraction
Everyone who is interested in this issue should contact D Gartner, who organizes lobbying efforts in favour of open protocols and the like. I've already spoken to her about the Sorenson codec and she has agreed to look into it. If she gets a few more letters about it maybe it'll get prioritized.
Consciousness is not what it thinks it is
Thought exists only as an abstraction
Yeah - I emailed Apple about it too, right after the first Phantom Menace trailer came out on QuickTime 4.
The bastards didn't even bother to reply. But then I'm mailing from a UK address, so what do *I* matter?
Fuckers.
Consciousness is not what it thinks it is
Thought exists only as an abstraction
I heard from Podlipec that it's useless to talk to Sorenson because in fact Apple and Microsoft have them in their pocket. There's some sort of exclusive licencing deal that means they *can't* release the codec details to open source authors. You have to address Apple, it's the only way.
Consciousness is not what it thinks it is
Thought exists only as an abstraction
Maybe what you say is true in the US (though I doubt it) but it's certainly not true in the UK. It was leaked several years ago that the UK domestic secret services have a file on anyone and everyone who has shown signs of potentially belonging to a "counter-culture". This includes the most mundane behaviour - for example everyone who has ever owned a motorcycle is included.
Unfortunately because of the political apathy of the British and our lack of a tradition of constitutional rights there was no uproar.
It might interest you to know that this type of activity isn't confined to the public sector either. Up until a few years ago there was a semi-secret private organisation in the UK called "the Economic League" which kept records of a similar nature on a phenomenal number of people. They would scour local papers and petitions which had been filed for the names of anyone who had ever dared to stick their head up over the parapet. They then sold this information to anyone who would pay. It is well known that the human resources departments of large corporations such as the major banks would routinely vet any job applicant against these files.
The League, whose records were all on paper and thus fell outside the remit of the UK Data Protection Act, apparently closed their offices a few years ago, around the time that the Internet started to take off. Anyone see anything fishy about that?
It may be that they realised their activities would no longer be tolerated. On the other hand it's just as possible that they went underground or moved overseas, in order to continue their business using the new technology and unmolested by tiresome laws about protecting private information.
Consciousness is not what it thinks it is
Thought exists only as an abstraction
"Yesterday"? is it hell! Doom is one of the coolest games ever. I still play regularly.
Consciousness is not what it thinks it is
Thought exists only as an abstraction
I've been thinking the same thing myself. Slashdot differs from Usenet in that articles posted to these are more widely distributed, and differs from both Usenet and archived mailing lists in that these also remain visible for longer. Since Slashdot now have more investment resources perhaps Rob and Jeff might think about expanding their searchable archive storage.
In the meantime, posters like Steven should be encouraged to post their work in as many different places as they can.
And Steven should be sure to send his piece (in hardcopy form!) to his congressman. He won't get the most mileage out of his analysis in fora like this one, where he's basically preaching to the choir.
Consciousness is not what it thinks it is
Thought exists only as an abstraction
...would as many people have been so
likely to start using Linux on a regular basis if the only X server available was
commercial and cost at least $100? I know I wouldn't have.
Well I would. In fact I ran Coherent until I heard about Linux. Even then I never really ran X on a regular basis until KDE appeared.
Consciousness is not what it thinks it is
Thought exists only as an abstraction
Mind you, to get all the way to excape velocity accelerating at 4g, the track would have to be over 1500km long. And it would all have be kept clean. Suppose you hit a pebble on the track at 11000km/sec?
Consciousness is not what it thinks it is
Thought exists only as an abstraction
The article says it'll only cost $75 worth of electricity to get a vehicle into orbit! Are they crazy?
Suppose a moderately sized satellite massing 1 metric tonne:
mass m = 10e3 kg
Escape Velocity v = 11.179e3 m/s
Kinetic Energy E = (mv^2)/2 = 6.2e10 J
In the UK electricity is available to industry for, oh, I don't know, about 5 pence per kiloWatt-hour. Given that the yanks get everything cheaper than we do, lets say they pay 5 cents per kiloWatt-hour:
1 kW/h = 3.6e6 J
Kinetic energy of escape velocity measured in kW/h:
6.2e10 J / 3.6e6 J = 1.7e4
Cost of energy: 1.7e4 * $0.05 = $850
Damn! well it's not $75 for the whole journey but insertion into low earth orbit doesn't mean going the whole way. And it's still phenomenally cheap. Who'd a thunk it?
Now that's the way to get construction materials for a space station up there...
Consciousness is not what it thinks it is
Thought exists only as an abstraction
By using the same data on all channels the most problematic error sources (optical crosstalk between channels and such) are minimized and the signal-noise ratio is therefore way better. In other words, they do transmit 80*80gbits/sec of data, but the actual information they transmit is (merely?) 80gbits/sec. So, unfortunately these setups are far from the real thing, but maybe someday...
What optical crosstalk? If that's a problem just paint the damn fibres black.
Consciousness is not what it thinks it is
Thought exists only as an abstraction
Of course if they try to control the licencing of this technology they way they (and Apple) have done with the Sorenson codec in order to leverage the dominance of their operating systems, I feel sure they'd be hauled up in front of the courts pretty quickly. They'll surely be forced to allow the same features to appear on other platforms.
Consciousness is not what it thinks it is
Thought exists only as an abstraction
In-utero gene therapy is the next great frontier. It would enable doctors to tinker with fetal DNA and cure congenital conditions before birth.
This was predicted a long time ago...by Frank Herbert in The Eyes of Heisenberg (1972, I think).
Consciousness is not what it thinks it is
Thought exists only as an abstraction
WHY has this man been moderated down? The point he raises is not flamebait, it is exactly the point at issue here: Americans are losing their freedoms and the Constitution is not protecting them.
Why? Because:
(1) The US government is entirely controlled by big business which doesn't give a flying fuck about individual liberties; and
(2) Individuals - including Slashdot readers - are too comfortable to get off their asses and demonstrate or even to pick up pen and paper and write to their representative.
Your Constitution is like everything else in the world that is worthwhile and that had to be fought for: USE it... or LOSE it.
If you're thinking it's none of my goddamned Brit business, think again. The whole "democratic" world still, rightly or wrongly, looks to the US for a lead. And whatever you guys let your government get away with, they are bound to try over here. Finally, if a constitution is as important as you Yanks say it is, then how can we Brits (and other Euros) possibly succeed in keeping our governments in check where you guys have already failed?
Just like the next in line at the slaughterhouse, we look across the pond at what is happening now and we very much fear for our own fate as a result.
Like it or not, the entire free world is today depending on the common American man and woman to rein in their government before these antidemocratic horrors multiply any further.
DAMN the Wassenaar agreement!
Consciousness is not what it thinks it is
Thought exists only as an abstraction
Ahh! Haggis, mashed tatties and neeps (that's turnips to you). Yum!
Consciousness is not what it thinks it is
Thought exists only as an abstraction
Fortunately, Linux/Unix is an inherently modular system. Every program is *expected* to have the ability to exchange data with others via stdin and stdout. So you don't really need special hooks for crypto, you just treat it like any other filter. To prevent that, the US Govt would have to ban all forms of Unix, and all incarnations of pipes and sockets on other systems too because this is all that is required to support arbitrary pipelines.
It it only closed proprietary systems like Windows which *need* special APIs for software components to interoperate.
Consciousness is not what it thinks it is
Thought exists only as an abstraction
Oh yes, I get the point all right. I even sympathise. I have no brief against greed and ambition - it's what makes the world turn.
But there is no mystery about this man's ambition. Ever since his first success he has had sufficient resources available to him to enable him to reach for yet more wealth. Most of us are greedy given half a chance. But he *can*, so he does.
My point was only to say that the author goes so far to avoid calling a spade a spade which is laughably disingenuous.
Consciousness is not what it thinks it is
Thought exists only as an abstraction
4MB Xpert@Play AGP
Win95 OSR/2 with DirectX6 and latest ATI drivers
SuSE Linux 5.3 with XFree 3.3
AMD K6-233 and AMDK6/2-300
Soyo 5EDM M/B (VIA VP3 chipset)
DFI P5XV3 M/B (VIA VP3 chipset)
AOpen AX59Pro M/B (VIA MVP3 chipset, revision "CD")
I tried *very* hard to find a home for this card but all combinations of the above software and hardware resulted in frequent and unacceptable glitches every time. I have had no problems with either the STB Velocity 128 (Riva 128) or STB Velocity 4400 (TNT) that I also have.
The fine print in the card documentation on the CDROM is most telling: only Intel CPUs and chipsets are supported. Unfortunately you don't get to see the fine print on the CD before you buy.
What else can I conclude under the circumstances, but that this card - and ATI's support policy - leave a lot to be desired?
Consciousness is not what it thinks it is
Thought exists only as an abstraction
There's no real problem for Red Hat. i.e, the Red Hat Europe subsidiary is incorporated outside of the US and they can provide the source code (and binary) rpms on their own servers. The parent US company can provide a URL on their own website without any problems - as long as the code was all developed outside of and remains stored outside of US national borders, they can still make it available to all their customers in the usual manner without actually exporting anything.
*This depends upon the notion that it doesn't count as an "export" when John Smith in the UK can download a file from an ftp server in Europe by clicking on a link provided by a US web server.
Consciousness is not what it thinks it is
Thought exists only as an abstraction
You have to laugh at the way the author pussyfoots around Clark's motives. The author claims that Clark just wants to "change the world" when recounting his stated desire for first $10 million, then $100 million, then $1 billion and so on and so on. But we already have a term that describes this form of acquisitiveness very well.
It's called "greed".
Still , I'd be greedy too if I could get away with it.
Consciousness is not what it thinks it is
Thought exists only as an abstraction
Like where? It's the video that's the problem, everything else was OK. And the fine print in the documentation for the card clearly states that the card is only intended for systems with an Intel CPU and an Intel chipset. So your success is clearly fortuitous.
Consciousness is not what it thinks it is
Thought exists only as an abstraction
This line of argument would be a lot more convincing if not for the fact that non-cyberpunk visions of the future that were not lacking in characterization, plotting, and the other things that too much of the sub-genre's writing were short on hadn't continued to come into existance even as cyberpunk was blooming.
I believe I've dealt with that point already - synchronicity doesn't exclude use of the "post-" appelation.
It's far more reasonable to see this as the maturing of the writers who are so obsessed with this small corner of speculative writing, so it's not post-cyberpunk, it's just adolescent cyberpunk. The cheeks no longer have the infant's rosy blush, but some more substantial values may be developing to make up for that loss of novelty.
As I said, the issue of whether it's a new school or just a branch of the old is moot. For the purpose of this discussion, compare and contrast, it might as well be treated hypothetically as separate.
And as others have said, the biggest new thing about the cyberpunk movement was that there were enough stories with some common tropes being written at the same time to catch Dozois' eye and get a collective name.
This is precisely why there *is* a "post-cyberpunk" school already. Gibson's novel struck such a chord in the heads of techno-savvy alienated youngsters that the meme spread rapidly: books, movies, rock videos, TV ads etc. Before long the imagery was recognisable to everyone, not just teenaged science fiction fans. Having become so established, ten years later a counter-revolution was inevitable. And though the birth of these offshoots may seem early to you, co-existence with the original school still does not introduce doubt as to their parentage.
The triumph of breathless, handwaving technological miracles over such old fashioned story telling values as good characterization has been a recurring pandemic in science fiction. In some ways it's part of the charm of the genre.
That might have been true of science fiction up until the 1950's. Since then science fiction has been divided into two categories - what's usually referred to as sci-fi (trashy pulp "the thing from mars" type stories and movies) and the more thoughtful science fiction which often passes for literature - e.g. Frank Herbert's Dune series.
I for one don't find the former particularly charming, it's cheap and nasty and usually produced by people who have no love of science fiction at all - they are just using a hackneyed old formula to capture a slice of the market.
Consciousness is not what it thinks it is
Thought exists only as an abstraction
Yeah...buy an ATI card at your peril - they just *don't work* on motherboards with non-Intel chipsets. Screen glitches galore on your desktop, and poor compatibility with older software.
Consciousness is not what it thinks it is
Thought exists only as an abstraction
It's beside the point to argue whether or not such distinctions are valid. All such distinctions are valid in a subjective sense only. And there is clearly a huge stylistic difference between Neuromancer and The Diamond Age.
Others have said in this forum that since cyberpunk isn't dead yet it is too early to announce post-cyberpunk. Well, that's just nonsense too. "post-" appelations are often used to denote an offshoot variant of a yet extant school, when that offshoot is the unambiguous inheritor of the earlier tradition. And Lawrence's definition is just about broad enough to fit the bill.
What Lawrence has done is to identify a trend which is clearly now in full swing: the re-humanisation and de-alienation of visions of the future.
Consciousness is not what it thinks it is
Thought exists only as an abstraction