![]() ![]() ![]() The long and short of this is that big tech companies know that too much time in cyberspace is bad for you, but they let it happen because it makes them more money. The film version of Johnny Mnemonic also presents a technologically inflicted pandemic, in the form of the fictional affliction “NAS” or nerve attenuation syndrome. And the underlying message there is pretty much the same: If the technology takes away childhood (or fails to manufacture it) then everybody is super depressed. In both cases, you’ve got perpetual psychological adulthood through science-fictional means. In Johnny Mnemonic, you’ve got a human guy who wants to be less machine-like by getting his childhood back. In that cyberpunk world, you had Replicants who were gifted fake childhood memories to make them more complete people. This plot device seems to seriously underestimate the storage capacity of the actual human mind but also creates a kind of reverse Blade Runner plot. ![]() In the movie, this means “Johnny” has traded his childhood memories for more data storage. Starring Reeves as the titular “Johnny,” the movie (as well as the short story on which it’s based) focuses on a data courier who moves information via a cybernetic implant. The beginning of Johnny Mnemonic, just telling it like it is. ![]()
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