I love the word Neuromancer, from the Gibson book. For me it works on a several levels and conjures up all sorts of evocative images, it’s a near perfect word. It has that cross between someone who studies and controls the dark arts of Neurology, and a “romancer” of Neurons. That lights up the Mondo2000 part of my brain.
So approximately once or twice every 6 months I think, “no wait, cool, what about Geomancer?” Someone who dabbles in the art of NeoGeography?
And then I remember that the word is already taken.
Which sucks.
No doubt I’ll go through all this again in around 6 months time.
(as an aside, are my comments working? They seem fine to me, but I’ve had a couple of people say they get a blank page)
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Why not just use Geogramancy?
Have you read Gibson’s latest? Spook Country features GPS as an important plot device and there’s an interesting character who’s a GPSorcerer of sorts. Very cool stuff, and, in fact, what’s gotten me interested in GPS “stuff” recently.
Well, you know, you could still use it. New definitions for words come into use all the time. I still think it’s great. We should start calling people Geomancers, as in “That guy is great, a real Geomancer.”