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I'm hoping they stick with the book's 'cassette futurism.' Remember that at one point they are selling pocket-sized VCRs at one of the markets, and the space ship pilot is afraid of a 'virus.'
Johnny Pneumonic actually states how much memory he has in his brain and itos incredibly small for our time like megabytes small.
Autocorrect is screwing with ya, bro!
Don't change it, because it's funny
Yes...autocorrect..I totally did not have a senior moment...nope my brain is a steal trap.
I'm going to steel that gag.
The makers of this show - Best I can do is a cheaper copy of Spielbergs Minority Report
Someone else in the thread made this point.
When the book first came out there was nothing like it. Today, the book's ideas have been recycled dozens of times.
There's a great movie "Predestination." It's based on a book written in the 1950's and it uses a future that looks like something people in the 1950s would have imagined 1975 would look like.