“Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts . . . A graphic representation of data abstracted from the banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity. Lines of light ranged in the nonspace of the mind, clusters and constellations of data. Like city lights, receding. . . .”
It’s crazy how much this guy influenced. Movies like the Matrix. He invented the concept of cyberspace and the matrix. I’m starting to see why people call William Gibson the father of Cyberpunk. With that being said, there were others to help lay the ground work like Philip K. Dick and such.