![]() ![]() Considering the current situation of the world, he let go of his optimism of a better world in the future, saying that after reaching a certain age, sci-fi writers tend to acquire the “everything is going to hell in a hand basket” perspective. We usually think of the apocalypse as though it’s the ultimate bad day,” he said. We don’t seem to have any cultural wherewithal to deal with that. “It posits an apocalypse that takes centuries to get rid of us. In an interview with Wired, Gibson commented about the slow death of the world in his novel. ![]() It was a group of events, happening simultaneously or in succession that led to a lot of deaths and a steep downfall in the population. It is hard to pinpoint when exactly it started because it wasn’t just one cataclysmic event that changed everything. ![]() ![]() The book describes the jackpot as an “androgenic, systemic, multiplex” event that has no beginning or end. However, the jackpot isn’t a single event. This gives the audience a sense that some event of apocalyptic level might have happened to change the face of the world. While in the sim, when Flynne still thinks that she is playing a game, Aelita West tells her that she will most probably be dead by the next decade. The world that Flynne visits in the future is set in the post-jackpot era, where she notices that the population is much lesser than in her own timeline. ‘The Peripheral’ is based on the book of the same name by William Gibson, and that’s where our knowledge about the jackpot comes from. ![]()
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