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I don't know. My memories of the eighties are those of a child, so not really paying attention to these things.
I think that exaggeration is difficult to get right. It's easy to exaggerate the wrong things or in the wrong way. And yet Gibson got a lot of things right.
Maybe diagnosis and prediction aren't really so different, but I'd like to extend whichever one gives us more admiration for him.
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Do you think Gibson was predicting the future, or just exaggerating trends that were already there? Sometimes sci-fi feels more like diagnosis than prophecy.