Oh boy, I don't even know where to start with "Burning Chrome" by William Gibson. To be honest it was insanely difficult for me to get into the story. I was baffled with what was going on in this story and almost gave myself a headache trying to figure it out. As the story continued I started grasp some of the general concept. The story seems to be about two hackers who are trying to hack and steal money from Chrome. There are what seem to be brothels and eye replacements and a bunch of other strange things. All in all, it was pretty confusing to me.
On the other hand "Computer Friendly" by Eileen Gunn, was a story I was able to understand and thoroughly enjoyed. The way the children were euthanized if they didn't pass the tests, or seemed to be "too fidgety" like that one little girl, was something I found to be really disturbing. It reminded me of how a computer company might be trying to make a new product and they have a bunch of different prototypes and once one acts up, they throw it away and try again till they make the perfect one. This story also reminded me of how now in our time some kids may not live up to their parents expectations and that child then becomes a lost cause to the parent. Just like the end of the story ,when the kids who were seen as useless became useful to that Chickensomething guy, computers, kids, or whatever it is might be a lost cause or failure to some but that doesn't mean that they aren't a success to others. To be totally cliché, one man's trash is another man's treasure.
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I also could not get into "Burning Chrome". It was probably how he writes since its so descriptive. You are right , there were many different strange things happening at the same time. The whole eye implants situation was really weird because how does your eyes even get you into Hollywood? "I loved Computer Friendly" also, but it was more interesting to me because it had more energy because it was a child's point of view. I also see why it could relate to prototypes because they are keeping the kids who are "their" material and the other kids who aren't are killed at the Asia Center. Which is pretty horrible because they actually kill little seven year olds who don't pass these series of test.
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