![]() ![]() No one can say artificial intelligence or the matrix without recalling some heavy, Hollywood-inspired images that are, at best, adapted ideas from Neuromancer. ![]() Ultimately consumed and co-opted by mainstream media, the remnants cyberpunk and Gibson’s book in particular remain. I always found that claim curious because, of course, Neuromancer became enormously popular its dark, noir and technology inspired world went on to spawn a whole genre, cyberpunk, along with plenty of imitators. ![]() In the forward to the 2004 reprinting of Neuromancer, William Gibson says that he felt his book would never find an audience in the United States because he was writing deliberately counter to what he felt American audiences wanted, unlike something like the Rocky franchise. Neuromancer – Deliberately Counter to American Expectations ![]()
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