Apathy Curve: <i>Neuromancer</i> at 25

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Thursday, July 02, 2009

Neuromancer at 25

A retrospective on William Gibson's masterpiece -- arguably the template for the World Wide Web.

[N]ovelist Jack Womack suggests that Neuromancer may have directly influenced the way the Web developed--that it may have provided a blueprint that developers who grew up with the book consciously or subconsciously followed. Womack asks "what if the act of writing it down, in fact, brought it about?"

I can buy that Gibson "created" the modern concept of the internet far easier than I can the ridiculous idea that Albert the Hutt had anything to do with it.

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