LAST EDITED ON Mar-11-14 AT 01:08 PM (EDT)
 
>And just for the record, they came out with SR5E last year....:)

I read something about that. I'm pretty sure I don't hold with the "revise backstory so new edition is as far ahead of present day as original edition was in its time" thing. I think that wacky "man, we did not account sufficiently for Moore's Law" thing that '80s cyberpunk has going on is part of what defines the form these days; "updating" it is like updating Napoleonic Wars fiction to include steamships and wireless telegraphy. That could be cool (indeed, that's basically what steampunk is), but it's not the same thing.

Boy, I said thing a lot in that paragraph.

Also, interfacing with the interwebs using a direct neural interface standard so sloppily designed that you can be injured by sudden disconnection was already daft - classical cyberpunk's equivalent of Star Trek consoles lacking basic overload protection or bottomless pits in Star Wars not having handrails - but doing so over wifi would be approximately the stupidest thing any human being has done since the first Cro-Magnon hunting casualty looked at a woolly mammoth and thought, Yeah, I can take him by myself. :)

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