Gun that makes you puke, and other links

The wall-penetrating vomit beam.

Lightning gun.

A new drug wipes out fearful memories. Hmm, sounds a lot like Ray Loriga's novel Tokyo Doesn't Love Us Anymore.

O brave new world

Private police forces

They wear uniforms, carry weapons and drive lighted patrol cars on private
properties like banks and apartment complexes and in public areas like bus
stations and national monuments. Sometimes they operate as ordinary citizens and
can only make citizen's arrests, but in more and more states they're being
granted official police powers.

The Panopticon Singularity

Surveillance need not even stop at our skin; the ability to monitor our
speech and track our biological signs (for example: pulse, pupillary dilation,
or possibly hormone and neurotransmitter levels) may lead to attempts to monitor
thoughts as well as deeds.

Where the hell'd you get that idea, HAL?

AI Cited for Unlicensed Practice of Law.

Neuromancer - A Graphic Novel

A fascinating piece of artwork from William Gibson aleph, which is an "essential information collection about contemporary writer William Gibson".

The graphic novel covers only the first third of 'Neuromancer' (chapters 'Chiba City Blues' and 'The Shopping Expedition'). It is quite well done, and the cyberspace sequences look very good. Apparently it was planned to be the first in a series of which the remaining chapters have been cancelled.

Gibson, apparently an avid comic fan during his youth, said that he is satisfied with the graphic novel and that it looks pretty much like what he imagined in 1983. He also said that if any of his work was adapted for the big screen, he would be happy if it would come as close to his original intention as the graphic novel.

Link

Like city lights, receding

What is cyberpunk anyway?

Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts... A graphic representation of data abstracted from banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity. Lines of light ranged in the nonspace of the mind, clusters and constellations of data. Like city lights, receding...
- Neuromancer (1984). William Gibson.