Ghost in the ShellMasamune Shirow
Ghost in the Shell
by Masamune Shirow · first published 2022
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All of Shirow Masamune's original The Ghost in the Shell manga in one massive hardcover make this the ultimate collector's edition of the ultimate cyberpunk classic. Contains The Ghost in the Shell 1, 1.5, and 2 for over 800 pages of manga. Featuring a NEW, EXCLUSIVE cover created for this edition by Shirow Masamune! Includes in one large hardcover volume: The Ghost in the Shell (1991) Deep into the twenty-first century, the line between man and machine has been blurred as humans rely on the enhancement of mechanical implants and robots are upgraded with human tissue. In this rapidly convergin
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…stories tell us it will be? In my opinion, later cyberpunk works in the 1970s is somewhat a counterpart to the classical dystopian works, it describes a postmodern world, not modern world. My favorite is Ghost in the Shell (original work & TV animation), it's a world of post-WW3 genocide, a world of universal surveillance, a world where the government can hijack your brain and body - many warnings in those classical works…
on “China's New Cybersecurity Program: No Place to Hide” ↗This reminded me of a quote from Shirow Masamune's Ghost In The Shell: "No matter how powerful we may be fighting-wise, a system where all the parts react the same way is a system with a fatal flaw. Like individual, like organization. Overspecialization leads to death."
on “Why no looting in Japan?” ↗So of all the possible futures we could have, ones where we use computers to give us crypto, good security and privacy etc, instead we end up with Masamune Shirow's admitted guess of Ghost in the Shell where people can't properly use their arms due to 5 different version of the driver installed and people having 10 different viruses IN THEIR BRAINS and are constantly getting hacked and having their…
on “The most dangerous code in the world” ↗…of the few books I’ll reread every few years. Both are sci-fi. And, while not technically a book but a manga, Appleseed by Masamune Shirow is another collection I reread every few years (precursor to Ghost in the Shell).
on “What are your favorite sci-fi and fantasy books?” ↗Extremely rarely IMHO. A nice example of this is Masamune Shirow, of Ghost in the Shell fame. If you go through the interviews, most of his inspiration comes from early scientific research and engineering debates that he internalized and integrated into a coherent and compelling vision of…
on “Observations from people-watching” ↗