Wireless cyberpunk

From	nebusj-@-rpi-.edu (Joseph Nebus)
Newsgroups	rec.arts.sf.written
Subject	Wireless cyberpunk
Date	2016-07-09 00:32 +0000
Organization	PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC
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        My love mentioned how you could really tell some near-future 
cybershenanigans story was written in the 80s or 90s because they all 
figured we'd have to jack in to stuff.  Plug in your phone, your 
keyboard, your brain.  Wires everywhere.  My love asked how everybody 
missed wireless.  

        So I would like to explore my ignorance here.  Who *did* have 
the insight that while cyberspace might be great, cyberspace over Wi-Fi 
was better?  Who used the idea well?  Who used it in superficially 
plausible but in retrospect hilariously bad ways?  

        (I will accept a broad concept of Wi-Fi.  Yes, I have read 
'The Machine Stops'.)  

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                                                                Joseph Nebus
 Math: Theorem Thursday: A First Fixed Point Theorem   http://wp.me/p1RYhY-12h
Humor: Stuff In Town That I Won't See                  http://wp.me/p37lb5-1h7 
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Wireless cyberpunk nebusj-@-rpi-.edu (Joseph Nebus) - 2016-07-09 00:32 +0000
  Re: Wireless cyberpunk Don Kuenz <garbage@crcomp.net> - 2016-07-09 04:18 +0000
    Re: Wireless cyberpunk "Sea Wasp (Ryk E. Spoor)" <seawasp@sgeinc.invalid.com> - 2016-07-09 09:24 -0400
      Re: Wireless cyberpunk "Sea Wasp (Ryk E. Spoor)" <seawasp@sgeinc.invalid.com> - 2016-07-09 11:11 -0400
      Re: Wireless cyberpunk Jerry Brown <jerry@jwbrown.co.uk.invalid> - 2016-07-09 16:23 +0100
  Re: Wireless cyberpunk Don Kuenz <garbage@crcomp.net> - 2016-07-09 04:59 +0000
  Re: Wireless cyberpunk "Brian M. Scott" <b.scott@csuohio.edu> - 2016-07-09 02:49 -0400
    Re: Wireless cyberpunk Greg Goss <gossg@gossg.org> - 2016-07-09 10:46 -0600
      Re: Wireless cyberpunk Bill Gill <billnews2@cox.net> - 2016-07-09 17:30 -0500
        Re: Wireless cyberpunk Juho Julkunen <giaotanj@hotmail.com> - 2016-07-10 02:38 +0300
        Re: Wireless cyberpunk Sjouke Burry <burrynulnulfour@ppllaanneett.nnll> - 2016-07-10 02:51 +0200
          Re: Wireless cyberpunk Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> - 2016-07-09 20:57 -0700
    Re: Wireless cyberpunk Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@excite.com> - 2016-07-11 09:30 -0700
      Re: Wireless cyberpunk Stephen Allcroft <stephenallcroft@lycos.co.uk> - 2016-07-19 08:46 -0700
        Re: Wireless cyberpunk Jerry Brown <jerry@jwbrown.co.uk.invalid> - 2016-07-19 20:23 +0100
  Re: Wireless cyberpunk David Johnston <Davidjohnston29@yahoo.com> - 2016-07-09 01:08 -0600
  Wireless cyberpunk Jack Bohn <jack.bohn64@gmail.com> - 2016-07-09 06:12 -0700
    Re: Wireless cyberpunk Don Kuenz <garbage@crcomp.net> - 2016-07-09 19:25 +0000
  Re: Wireless cyberpunk Bill Gill <billnews2@cox.net> - 2016-07-09 08:22 -0500
    Re: Wireless cyberpunk Joe Bernstein <joe@sfbooks.com> - 2016-07-21 10:00 -0700
      Re: Wireless cyberpunk hamish.laws@gmail.com - 2016-07-21 18:14 -0700
  Re: Wireless cyberpunk Greg Goss <gossg@gossg.org> - 2016-07-09 10:41 -0600
    Re: Wireless cyberpunk "Gary R. Schmidt" <grschmidt@acm.org> - 2016-07-10 14:52 +1000
      Re: Wireless cyberpunk Greg Goss <gossg@gossg.org> - 2016-07-10 20:31 -0600
        Re: Wireless cyberpunk Don Bruder <dakidd@sonic.net> - 2016-07-10 21:27 -0700
  Re: Wireless cyberpunk David DeLaney <daviddelaney@earthlink.net> - 2016-07-09 18:11 -0500

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