3ternalreturn

This is a unique list of science-fiction books. I can relate to the experience you describe, and now I need to read some of these that are new to me.

the author didn't write anything like that

It's already been flagged and un-flagged. I'm sure that will keep happening.

absolutely savage. no notes.

Seems pretty straightforward that AI wiping out humans is a bad thing.

media diet! healthy distance from social media, etc.

Good points here. I wish this issue specifically was discussed more openly and honestly: "A dirty little secret of action metrics is how often the success signal — a button click or a form submission — is immediately followed by a meandering session of actions that obviously signals confusion and possibly even regret. Often, confusion is easier to perceive from session data than much else."

There's a lot of printing in Gibson stuff. Check out The Peripheral if you haven't already.

Gibson described cyberspace as "a consensual hallucination" which is still an incredibly good phrase