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I finished it. I'll reread it again someday. Not bad for science fiction. Lol imagine reading it in 1984 when it was written.
i read it just a couple of years after it came out, it took me several reads to get into it but has become one of my favorites. That said, some of it, like the opening line, probably doesn't make sense to younger people... "The sky above the Port was the color of a television tuned to a dead channel" evoked a completely different mental image in the days before digital TVs.
Man how did the concepts of ai differ back then did you have idea or was it just space magic?
The concepts of AI have been around a long time and weren't really any different back then. Even the fundamental technology that current AI is built on has mostly been around since like the 70s, its just the amount of data that can be used to train them is staggeringly larger, which has lead to the recent breakthroughs in capability.
Come on dude that info wasn't as mainstream then, how many movies in the 70s were about it? You could say the same shit about the Internet. For crying out loud if people understood cellphones how many shows and books would have been instantly solved?
I dunno what you're saying here. Public awareness of AI wasn't as "mainstream" as now, but especially for people that were reading science fiction, it certainly wasn't "space magic". Asimov's I, Robot was published in 1950! People have been contemplating and writing about the potential of AI for a very long time.
How was the Asimov series? I tried reading it when I was 12 and yeah it didn't go over to well.
100% sci fi magic, but the visuals he describes of cyberspace still are how i imagine it
That is the talent in sci Fi making me visualize and understand the magic.