Nodal Point

Full Title or Meme

A point in time when everything seems to be in flux. It might be possible to detect a Model Point before it occurs, but not to predict the outcome.

Context

• The bridge novels of William Gibson.

1. Virtual Light ISBN. (1993) San Francisco
2. Idoru ISBN 0399141308 (1996) Tokyo
3. All of Tomorrows' parties ISBN 0399145796. San Francisco (1999 page 4.

   It's all going to change. We're coming up on the mother of all nodal points. I can see it, now it's all going to change. Last time we had one like this was in 1911.

As spoken by researcher Colin Laney, who has a mysterious ability to identify patterns in vast tracts of information. He appears in Idoru and All Tomorrow's Parties.

Problem

Even though Laney could predict when a Nodal Point was coming, he had no idea how it wold play out.