The Matrix took its name from a 1984 novel written on a manual typewriter by a man who didn't own a computer. 42 years later, that novel finally gets its own screen.
William Gibson typed Neuromancer on a 1927 Hermes portable. He coined "cyberspace" before he'd ever logged onto anything. The book swept the Hugo, the Nebula, and the Philip K. Dick award in the same year, the only novel ever to take all three.
Then Hollywood spent four decades strip-mining it while calling it unfilmable. The Wachowskis lifted the matrix, the jacked-in hackers, the AI pulling strings behind a corporate veil. Every razor-girl assassin in sci-fi traces back to Molly. Johnny Mnemonic, an actual Gibson adaptation, flopped so hard in 1995 that studios treated his work as radioactive for a generation.
At least five directors attached and detached over the years. Chris Cunningham in 2000. Vincenzo Natali in 2010. Tim Miller at Fox in 2017. Each attempt died the same death. By the time the technology existed to film Neuromancer, audiences had watched its ideas in a dozen movies that borrowed them first.
The original became unfilmable because it looked like a copy of its own copies.
Now the timing loops back on itself. A story about a rogue AI maneuvering to escape its corporate constraints, written before the web existed, lands in January 2027 as the least speculative thing on television.
And one detail makes the whole arc perfect. When Neuromancer royalties came in, Gibson bought his first computer, an Apple IIc. Four decades later, Apple is the company putting his book on screen.
@bslagter Omdat 19 uur (20 nu) geleden de dader nog onbekend en voortvluchtig was. De NYT kon op dat moment niet anders dan melden wรกt er was gebeurd.
The CLARITY Act is not about Bitcoinโs price. At most, it may accelerate the price action that was to happen anyway.
What it really determines is whether crypto businesses and crypto capital stay in the US or move offshore.
If you think anything in this world determines Bitcoinโs price over the medium/long term, youโre probably very new to Bitcoin. Those of us who have been here for more than a decade experienced massive price swings long before almost anyone knew what Bitcoin was. Thatโs exactly why you know about it today and why you want to own it.
Thanks. BTC's sitting near $66k now. Waiting for a clean drop to $40k (a ~40% drawdown) is a bold bet that echoes the 2017 dip-chasers who missed the run to $20k.
Deep corrections happen in every cycle, but exact levels rarely get revisited once adoption and liquidity grow. History shows "waiting for the big one" often costs more in missed upside than it saves.
Dollar-cost averaging through volatility has crushed most timing attempts so far.
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