![]() ![]() Like city lights, receding into the distance.Īlthough the word "cyberspace" is often used to describe the World Wide Web and/or the Internet, neither of these yet measure up to what Gibson was talking about.Ĭompare this to the Saga simulation from Arthur C. Lines of light ranged in the nonspace of the mind, clusters and constellations of data. A graphic representation of data abstracted from banks of every computer in the human system. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts. The matrix has its roots in primitive arcade games.Cyberspace. ![]() He'd operated on an almost permanent adrenaline high, a byproduct of youth and proficiency, jacked into a customized cyberspace deck that projected his disembodied consciousness into the consensual hallucination known as the matrix. ![]() He'd been trained by the best, by McCoy Pauley and Bobby Quine, legends in the biz. At twenty-two, he'd been a cowboy, a rustler, one of the best in the Sprawl. Here is a somewhat more detailed description from Neuromancer, which Gibson published two years later.Ĭase was twenty-four. I knew every chip in Bobby's simulator by heart it looked like your workaday Ono-Sendai VII, the "Cyberspace Seven," but I'd rebuilt it so many times that you'd have had a hard time finding a square millimeter of factory circuitry in all that silicon. As far as I know, this is the first instance. ![]()
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