neuromancer

To be fair Neuromancer was published in 1984 so computers and word processing was weird and clunky and expensive.

Didn't the same situation exist in Neuromancer where all governments had abandoned paper money but criminals continued to use it?

William Gibson got the essence and the aesthetic of it in Neuromancer in 1984.

And why Gibson wrote Neuromancer on a manual typewriter and avoided touching computers until they became so ubiquitous he couldn't not touch one.

I re-read Neuromancer a few years ago and to me it seemed that with the exception of certain details (e.g.

I immediately thought of the Turing Police in Neuromancer when I read this post.

Are there any works from the last 2 decades that could be even mentioned in the same breath as dune, foundation, ender's game, neuromancer, hyperion...etc.?

I've read Neuromancer about once a year since my late teens.

( So that one can show where the opening line of Neuromancer or the first paragraph of The Library of Babel is located.) But otherwise really cool.

I remember reading cyberpunk novels when I was younger, Neuromancer and everything since, and thinking that all those stories about plucky hackers cracking governments and megacorps were hopelessly mired in the '80s.

In the non-fiction sphere they could do worse than to read: - Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson - Neuromancer by William Gibson Both books have had a huge impact on hacker culture, as well as doing a good job of documenting it.

While it wasn't perfect (I also reread Neuromancer last year, so maybe The Peripheral suffers in comparison), it was a pretty fun read and had a bit to chew on so I'd certainly recommend it if you're an SF fan.

This reminds me of a concept from William Gibson's "Neuromancer": What were called coffin racks; frameworks to hold modular units.

"Cognitive Dissidents" was used in William Gibson's novel Neuromancer.

Who, and "Cyberspace" in SF through Vinge's "True Names" and Gibson's "Burning Chrome" and "Neuromancer", which lead to the cyberpunk movement.

My favourite "I-feel-old" case of words that have changed meaning is this: "The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel." (William Gibson, Neuromancer) So, bright blue then...

That's from Neuromancer, when the hologram (like a chat bot) is having a conversation with the main character.

Neuromancer by William Gibson, as directed by Chris Cunningham.

It's like a cross between Donnie Darko and Neuromancer.