Results tagged “cyberspace” from Birmingham Mail - Technobabble
I used to love the William Gibson 'Cyberpunk' novels.
Set in a near future of high technology and crumbling society they seemed to represent a possibly accurate vision of what might come to pass, with corporations ruling the roost.
Of course, they were successful not just because they were about the technology and science fiction. At the heart of each such as Neuromancer and Mona Lisa Overdrive was a well written thriller.
In this genre, cyberspace was where people met each other electronically - and they did so by 'jacking in' - plugging a cable into a cranial socket in their bonce
Social networking was a bit more hard work in this vision of the near future and I suppose it's now unlikely to come to pass.
With facebook, twitter, ever more hi-tech mobile phones, and so on all providing a mass of easily accessible, user friendly and instant communications technologies, it's hard to imagine surgery ever playing a part in everyday networking and conversation.
Perhaps Cyberpunk is dead - shame really as I'd trust the brain as a bit of hardware more than my error prone computer. Mind you if it crashed after a virus...
Below - one vision of the future which may never come to pass - everyman communication cybernetics.
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