http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/11/movie-gadget-friday-johnny-mnemonic/ Engadget Comments for Movie Gadget Friday: Johnny Mnemonic http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/11/movie-gadget-friday-johnny-mnemonic/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/11/movie-gadget-friday-johnny-mnemonic/Apr 11th 2008 10:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/11/movie-gadget-friday-johnny-mnemonic/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/11/movie-gadget-friday-johnny-mnemonic/Apr 11th 2008 10:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/11/movie-gadget-friday-johnny-mnemonic/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/11/movie-gadget-friday-johnny-mnemonic/Apr 11th 2008 11:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/11/movie-gadget-friday-johnny-mnemonic/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/11/movie-gadget-friday-johnny-mnemonic/Apr 12th 2008 12:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/11/movie-gadget-friday-johnny-mnemonic/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/11/movie-gadget-friday-johnny-mnemonic/
I met him recently at a book signing for Spook Country. Gruff old bird who didn't get why audio books would be interesting to people (I asked why so few of his books were in audio).

Poor Bill. I think Hollywood got the better of him here. I wonder what he thought of it after all was said and done, and if he knew how badly this film would turn out compared to the subtlety of his fiction.

]]>Apr 12th 2008 1:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/11/movie-gadget-friday-johnny-mnemonic/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/11/movie-gadget-friday-johnny-mnemonic/
Also, in Cyberpunk, the technology was always gritty... it wouldn't work if everyone was running around with perfect techology that always worked. That would take straight into Sci-Fi, out of the Cyberpunk world. In Gibsons universe, much of the technology that the black-marketers got their hands on was old military technology. It was more powerful then the consumer products, but never as neatly packaged.]]>Apr 13th 2008 11:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/11/movie-gadget-friday-johnny-mnemonic/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/11/movie-gadget-friday-johnny-mnemonic/Apr 14th 2008 11:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/11/movie-gadget-friday-johnny-mnemonic/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/11/movie-gadget-friday-johnny-mnemonic/
Also, remember that in 1995 it featured the same UI concepts that everybody was gaga about in Minority Report it 2002 and Microsoft Surface whenever that comes out.]]>Apr 14th 2008 5:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/11/movie-gadget-friday-johnny-mnemonic/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/11/movie-gadget-friday-johnny-mnemonic/
I agree that the technology was often portrayed as "gritty", but my recollection was that it was only gritty for those that couldn't afford the good stuff. The Yakuza had the high-end stuff. It was the runners--the street hoods and those looking to climb the ladders quickly and make a name for themselves--that would get their mods in the Sprawl, and get screwed as often as not.]]>Apr 14th 2008 6:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/11/movie-gadget-friday-johnny-mnemonic/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/11/movie-gadget-friday-johnny-mnemonic/Apr 15th 2008 4:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/11/movie-gadget-friday-johnny-mnemonic/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/11/movie-gadget-friday-johnny-mnemonic/Apr 17th 2008 4:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/11/movie-gadget-friday-johnny-mnemonic/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/11/movie-gadget-friday-johnny-mnemonic/Apr 11th 2008 11:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/11/movie-gadget-friday-johnny-mnemonic/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/11/movie-gadget-friday-johnny-mnemonic/Apr 11th 2008 11:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/11/movie-gadget-friday-johnny-mnemonic/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/11/movie-gadget-friday-johnny-mnemonic/
- http://www.stompergames.com]]>Jul 2nd 2008 2:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/11/movie-gadget-friday-johnny-mnemonic/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/11/movie-gadget-friday-johnny-mnemonic/
yeah, the technology sucks, that's kinda the point. ]]>Apr 11th 2008 11:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/11/movie-gadget-friday-johnny-mnemonic/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/11/movie-gadget-friday-johnny-mnemonic/Apr 11th 2008 11:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/11/movie-gadget-friday-johnny-mnemonic/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/11/movie-gadget-friday-johnny-mnemonic/If Keanau wasn't around, we would never realize how good Johnny Depp is.]]>Apr 11th 2008 11:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/11/movie-gadget-friday-johnny-mnemonic/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/11/movie-gadget-friday-johnny-mnemonic/Apr 11th 2008 11:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/11/movie-gadget-friday-johnny-mnemonic/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/11/movie-gadget-friday-johnny-mnemonic/Apr 12th 2008 12:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/11/movie-gadget-friday-johnny-mnemonic/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/11/movie-gadget-friday-johnny-mnemonic/Apr 12th 2008 12:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/11/movie-gadget-friday-johnny-mnemonic/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/11/movie-gadget-friday-johnny-mnemonic/Apr 12th 2008 3:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/11/movie-gadget-friday-johnny-mnemonic/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/11/movie-gadget-friday-johnny-mnemonic/Apr 12th 2008 12:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/11/movie-gadget-friday-johnny-mnemonic/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/11/movie-gadget-friday-johnny-mnemonic/
Yeah, those were the times....]]>Apr 12th 2008 12:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/11/movie-gadget-friday-johnny-mnemonic/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/11/movie-gadget-friday-johnny-mnemonic/
Plus, you don't even want to know what a 40MB HDD was worth - Oh, and it was a 5.25" not a 3.5".]]>Apr 12th 2008 12:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/11/movie-gadget-friday-johnny-mnemonic/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/11/movie-gadget-friday-johnny-mnemonic/Apr 12th 2008 1:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/11/movie-gadget-friday-johnny-mnemonic/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/11/movie-gadget-friday-johnny-mnemonic/
My old Amiga 2000 had a 40MB SCSI HDD. :D 5.25" indeed.]]>Apr 12th 2008 1:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/11/movie-gadget-friday-johnny-mnemonic/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/11/movie-gadget-friday-johnny-mnemonic/http://www.mainbyte.com/ti99/hardware/cassette/recorder.html) into the computer modem to load the software.

A typical 45min cassette tape held about 100k]]>Apr 12th 2008 1:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/11/movie-gadget-friday-johnny-mnemonic/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/11/movie-gadget-friday-johnny-mnemonic/
Hard Disks??

My first computer had no storage and you had to enter "code" by setting 8 physical switches for the binary bits.

Programs were stored on small punched cards which had to be loaded manually and in order...]]>Apr 12th 2008 2:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/11/movie-gadget-friday-johnny-mnemonic/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/11/movie-gadget-friday-johnny-mnemonic/
Wow. We have it REALLY damn good nowadays, huh?

"At this point you should have the basic knowledge for choosing a cassette recorder, and getting it to work with your computer. Keep in mind that tape storage transforms your Home Computer into a very powerful and versatile machine. And once you get familiar with the few simple procedures and precautions, each occasion of saving and loading programs and data files will become second nature, one might even say, “filled with memories . .""

Geez.]]>Apr 12th 2008 3:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/11/movie-gadget-friday-johnny-mnemonic/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/11/movie-gadget-friday-johnny-mnemonic/Floppy Disks?
Tape Drives?
Punched Cards?

Ha!

I remember back in my day when we used to store information by carving into stone tablets. Good times.
]]>Apr 12th 2008 5:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/11/movie-gadget-friday-johnny-mnemonic/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/11/movie-gadget-friday-johnny-mnemonic/Apr 12th 2008 12:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/11/movie-gadget-friday-johnny-mnemonic/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/11/movie-gadget-friday-johnny-mnemonic/Back in my day we didn't have no stone. We arranged hydrogen atoms for data just after the big bang.]]>Apr 12th 2008 3:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/11/movie-gadget-friday-johnny-mnemonic/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/11/movie-gadget-friday-johnny-mnemonic/Apr 12th 2008 4:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/11/movie-gadget-friday-johnny-mnemonic/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/11/movie-gadget-friday-johnny-mnemonic/"What the hell am I gonna do with 20 meg of storage?"]]>Apr 13th 2008 2:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/11/movie-gadget-friday-johnny-mnemonic/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/11/movie-gadget-friday-johnny-mnemonic/
Remember, Bill gates himself told us that 640K was all anyone would ever need, and when did he ever lie to us?]]>May 2nd 2008 9:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/11/movie-gadget-friday-johnny-mnemonic/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/11/movie-gadget-friday-johnny-mnemonic/Apr 12th 2008 1:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/11/movie-gadget-friday-johnny-mnemonic/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/11/movie-gadget-friday-johnny-mnemonic/Apr 12th 2008 2:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/11/movie-gadget-friday-johnny-mnemonic/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/11/movie-gadget-friday-johnny-mnemonic/*makes ridiculous hand gestures*
A COMPUTER!!!]]>Apr 12th 2008 3:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/11/movie-gadget-friday-johnny-mnemonic/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/11/movie-gadget-friday-johnny-mnemonic/
Gibson FTW by the way...]]>Apr 12th 2008 2:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/11/movie-gadget-friday-johnny-mnemonic/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/11/movie-gadget-friday-johnny-mnemonic/http://www.imdb.com/video/screenplay/vi2861236505/), a must see I reckon.

Another huge Minidisc endorsement plus virtual reality (or dreams), but look at now...

Next week perhaps?]]>Apr 12th 2008 4:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/11/movie-gadget-friday-johnny-mnemonic/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/11/movie-gadget-friday-johnny-mnemonic/Apr 12th 2008 8:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/11/movie-gadget-friday-johnny-mnemonic/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/11/movie-gadget-friday-johnny-mnemonic/Apr 13th 2008 9:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/11/movie-gadget-friday-johnny-mnemonic/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/11/movie-gadget-friday-johnny-mnemonic/
--Marty McFly]]>Apr 12th 2008 8:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/11/movie-gadget-friday-johnny-mnemonic/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/11/movie-gadget-friday-johnny-mnemonic/Apr 12th 2008 9:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/11/movie-gadget-friday-johnny-mnemonic/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/11/movie-gadget-friday-johnny-mnemonic/"Hold on, I need to download."]]>Apr 12th 2008 3:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/11/movie-gadget-friday-johnny-mnemonic/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/11/movie-gadget-friday-johnny-mnemonic/May 2nd 2008 10:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/11/movie-gadget-friday-johnny-mnemonic/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/11/movie-gadget-friday-johnny-mnemonic/
Also, Ice-T, Henrey Rollins, Dizzy(from Starhip Troopers) ... this was a great supporting cast. (Perhaps not great in terms of performance though...)
]]>Apr 12th 2008 10:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/11/movie-gadget-friday-johnny-mnemonic/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/11/movie-gadget-friday-johnny-mnemonic/Apr 12th 2008 11:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/11/movie-gadget-friday-johnny-mnemonic/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/11/movie-gadget-friday-johnny-mnemonic/http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0138704/]]>Apr 12th 2008 12:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/11/movie-gadget-friday-johnny-mnemonic/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/11/movie-gadget-friday-johnny-mnemonic/Apr 12th 2008 1:34PM