<story><title>How William Gibson Keeps His Science Fiction Real</title><url>https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/12/16/how-william-gibson-keeps-his-science-fiction-real</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dcminter</author><text>This is not super-relevant to the article, but I thought I would mention:&lt;p&gt;It often strikes me that the opening line of Neuromancer, which is something like &amp;quot;The sky was the color of a TV tuned to a dead channel&amp;quot; must be losing its meaning to newer readers.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>daeken</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve been replaying Mass Effect 3 recently and there&amp;#x27;s a little story someone tells, which starts with &amp;quot;Sky was color of vid-cam turned to a dead vorcha.&amp;quot;  That gave me a great chuckle.</text></comment>
<story><title>How William Gibson Keeps His Science Fiction Real</title><url>https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/12/16/how-william-gibson-keeps-his-science-fiction-real</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dcminter</author><text>This is not super-relevant to the article, but I thought I would mention:&lt;p&gt;It often strikes me that the opening line of Neuromancer, which is something like &amp;quot;The sky was the color of a TV tuned to a dead channel&amp;quot; must be losing its meaning to newer readers.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>atombender</author><text>I think that line has survived quite well. In the 1980s, this implied flickering static noise. In the late 1990s and 2000s, the colour of missing input on TVs was often blue, which is perhaps less fitting the scene. But these days, a &amp;quot;dead channel&amp;quot; would presumably be interpreted as the TV not having any source input, and is often just black.</text></comment>