Collected Essays William Gibson noted as a remarkable visionary

probably is that most people know that William Gibson coined the term "cyberspace" that you have read Neuromancer (more than 6, 5 million copies sold), his 1984 novel that made famous the word. And I'm sure that people associate the term with her as I read "Burning Chrome", the story that appeared in 1981. This is a big word, so no wonder it was collected for describe the virtual space of computer networks outside of science fiction, space now so real that the Pentagon recognizes military as a fifth field (the others being land, sea and air and space). In many ways , cyberspace as we know, it's not like Gibson imagined cyberspace 30 years ago, but the resemblance is pretty close to what he has gained a reputation as a prophet of the information age.

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distrust this particular flavor it clear that this is a reputation that is at ease. In a lecture given in the Book Fair in New York in 2010, published here for the first time, he joked that

Neuromancer has "a total absence of mobile phones , I'm sure you take young readers should be a key plot point, "noting that" the future is always imagined, no matter what the author might think, the day they are written. Orwell knew, writing aa 984

in 1948 "- the year, as is the case, that Gibson was born -" and I could write Neuromancer "

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stock on the theme of "Network": "As a writer of science fiction, I m. wonder sometimes if I think the network is a good thing "In the epilogue of the work in this volume, wrote:" I do not remember, rather, that's what I had imagined "network" which at this point however, I freely throw around the term
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