Second decade of the 21st Century. Corporations rule. The world is threatened by a new plague: NAS Nerve Attentuation Syndrome, fatal, epidemic, its cause and cure are unknown. The corporations are opposed by the Lo Teks, a resistance movement risen from the streets: hackers, data-pirates, guerilla fighters in the Info Wars. The corporations defend themselves. They hire the Yakuza, the most powerful of all crime syndicates. They sheath their data in black ice, lethal viruses waiting to burn the brains of intruders. But the Lo Teks wait in their strongholds, in the old city cores, like rats in the walls of the world. The most valuable information must sometimes be entrusted to mnemonic couriers, elite agents who smuggle data in wet-wired brain implants.
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I remember hating that movie when I saw it the first time. But now that I read this I'm gonna give it a Q Re-view.
I remember rewatching it years later after getting into William Gibson (so then knowing the source material) and also thought it was much better on a second viewing. Still not a great movie but Reeves actually did fit the role very well, no surprise that they had him voice a character in Cyberpunk 2077 that's modeled on him as well.
The DeepStaters protect themselves.
They hire MS-13, the most ruthless of all crime syndicates.
Based Hollywood was trying to warn us?
More like "soft disclosure," aka, predictive programming.