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Rate Video: William Gibson Returns To Cyberspace

Original at AOL Video external link    Wed, Feb 25    4 related articles

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Original at YouTube external link    Fri, Aug 3    4 related articles

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Rate The First Decade: Has the internet brought us together or driven us apart?

Original at Independent external link    21 hours ago

When the sci-fi novelist William Gibson first put forward the notion of "cyberspace", he described it as a "consensual hallucination", where we pretend we ... and more »

Rate New world disorder: The digital dilemma

Original at Independent external link    Mon, Dec 7

When the sci-fi novelist William Gibson first put forward the notion of "cyberspace", he described it as a "consensual hallucination", where we pretend we ...

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were the stuff of science fiction. Creators like William Gibson, who coined the term "cyberspace" in his novel Neuromancer, helped ... vimeo.com

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Original at Özel Web Tasarım external link    Tue, May 26

the concept inspired by cyberspace described by William Gibson in his Neuromancer novels, as well as Neal Stephenson's depiction of the matrix in Snow ... and more »

Rate Brave New Words: The Oxford Dictionary of Science Fiction

Original at EducationGuardian.co.uk external link    Fri, May 22

 UK Famously "cyberspace" was coined by William Gibson ("Burning Chrome", 1982), but I was surprised to learn that he wasn't the first to use "matrix" for virtual reality; it appears in a 1976 Dr Who script. Of course, there are omissions: "atomic bomb" ...

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Original at WA today external link    Sun, May 17

 Australia The science fiction writer who coined the term "cyberspace" in 1984, William Gibson, once said: "The future is already here - it's just unevenly distributed". In the 1990s, pulling out a brick-sized cellphone in front of friends was sure to provoke ...

Rate Sawyer gives Internet a brain

Original at www2.canada.com external link    Sat, May 2

 Canada - Robert Sawyer Once her "eyepod" is in place, she first sees not the external world but the flow of data along lines and between points that is the Internet: cyberspace as it exists physically. But unlike the work of William Gibson, where virtual reality is an open ...

Rate MAG: Massive Action Game for PlayStation 3 : Exclusive Hands On ...

Original at blog.seattlepi.com external link    Wed, Apr 29

In his ground breaking 1984 book Neromancer, William Gibson defined the word cyberspace as the consensual hallucination shared by millions over global networks. That is what MAG is. It is a game that has been designed to be a real persistent place that ...

Rate The Car of the Future That Never Was

Original at Seattlest external link    Fri, Apr 24

 Seattle If the Space Needle is the example par excellence of Populuxe architecture, then the Seattle-ite XXI is every bit as indicative of Raygun Gothic, a term coined by William Gibson to refer to "retro-futuristic science fiction" design, the look and feel ...

Rate Book Review: Wake by Robert J. Sawyer

Original at network.nationalpost.com external link    Fri, Apr 17

 Canada Once her “eyepod” is in place, she first sees not the external world but the flow of data along lines and between points that is the Internet: cyberspace as it exists physically. But unlike the work of William Gibson, where virtual reality is an open ...

Rate Reality Grows Amid Fantasy

Original at afcea.org external link    Wed, Apr 15

 VA When cyberspace emerged from William Gibson’s writings to become a part of everyday life, it still was defined by real-world criteria. When online businesses succeeded, it was because entrepreneurs built them according to rational business models. ...

Rate No Maps For These Territories

Original at vids.myspace.com external link    Thu, Mar 19

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In april 1999, William Gibson, the writer who coined the word 'cyberspace', steps into a limousine packed with digital media and sets off on a ... vids.myspace.com

Rate March 17, 1948: William Gibson, Father of Cyberspace

Original at Wired News external link    Mon, Mar 16

Most importantly, the story "Burning Chrome" marked the first appearance of the term cyberspace — which Gibson would later describe in No Maps for These Territories as an "evocative and essentially meaningless" buzzword that could serve as a cipher for ...

Rate Company plans to sue Blizzard over virtual world patent

Original at Joystiq external link    Wed, Mar 11

 CA WoW Insider cites the term 'cyberspace' as coined by William Gibson and used in his 1984 novel Neuromancer. One might even argue that the internet itself qualifies. On top of that, NCsoft itself has yet to be served with notice of the suit. ...

Rate The week in geek: Will Tron 2 be a virtual nightmare?

Original at EducationGuardian.co.uk external link    Tue, Mar 3

 UK It was also remarkably prescient, given that the term "cyberspace" did not even enter the public lexicon until two years later, when William Gibson wrote his brilliant yet bewildering debut novel Neuromancer. A sequel has been planned for some time, ...

Rate Book Review: Daemon by Daniel Suarez

Original at Blogcritics external link    Fri, Jan 23

 OH - Jan 23, 2009 Maybe this joystick-and-rad-guns stuff was hot when William Gibson published Neuromancer back in 1984. The very idea of cyberspace was cool back then. ...

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Original at Gadgetnutz external link    Wed, Dec 10

 VA - Dec 10, 2008 I wish I had something like this when I was in college. Of course, when I was in college William Gibson hadn't yet coined the term “cyberspace”.

Rate Mapping Cyberspace Onto Actual Space

Original at The html times external link    Tue, Nov 4

 MA - The word was coined in the early 1980's by William Gibson to describe the VR network connecting the world of his seminal novel Neuromancer. "Cyberspace. ...

Rate Cyberpunk Ergonomics: Best Position to Jack In

Original at Science Fiction Observer external link    Mon, Oct 13

By Развигор(noreply@blogger.com) In his early cyberpunk works set in the Neuromancer universe, William Gibson envisioned hackers (cyberspace jockeys, cyber cowboys) jacking in into the matrix not seating in front of a computer, but lying down on their belly in a position resembling driving riding a high-powered moto...

Rate William Gibson's Burning Chrome to air on BBC7

Original at SFFaudio external link    Mon, Oct 13

By Jesse Burning Chrome Set in the world of cyberspace and computer hacking. Bobby Quine and Automatic Jack are trying to figure out a way of pulling off the one big score that will make them rich. But industrial espionage is a dangerous business, especially when they decide to rip off Chrome, the mos...

Rate How to lose yourself in cyberspace

Original at BBC News external link    Sun, Oct 12

 UK - Something similar seems to happen when it comes to navigating the world of data stored on our computers, the world that SF writer William Gibson named ...

Rate Is e-literature just one big anti-climax?

Original at EducationGuardian.co.uk external link    Wed, Sep 24

 UK - Sep 24, 2008 For Kathy Acker, and other pioneers who were already pushing the envelope on papyrus, cyberspace (copyright William Gibson) was truly the final frontier. ...

Year 2007

 

Rate William Gibson To Appear In Second Life

Original at InformationWeek external link    Mon, Jul 9

William Gibson, whose 1984 novel Neuromancer was a bible for Internet pioneers, is making an appearance in Second Life. Gibson wasn't the first person to use the idea of "cyberspace," but he coined the word and popularized it.   more Update your feed preferences powered by SimpleFeed

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