At its heart, the anger with Twitter is not over its wanting to monetize its invention but rather the violation of the contract we all signed on for, namely to establish relationships with our friends and most importantly friends we don’t yet know about. It’s a bait and switch Twitter has pulled, establishing the cloud and then pulling the plug on our relationships, and I for one of many take it personally.

s it Gibson’s vision? Not quite. There’s no way this film can ever achieve what Gibson did. He practically changed the world and how we imagined ourselves growing up into it. The novel is always going to be the superior work of art. The book’s a legitimate work of genius in a millenial way, not the Richard Roeper thumbs up way. I’m working on a two hour movie, so it’s my distillation of his vision into a much shorter form. Compomises and interpretation will be required, and the personal issues I chose to focus on will be the things that turn me on about the book. So at the end of the day, there’s wiggle room: the good shit is his, the bad shit is mine.