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Wiliam Gibson came to widespread attention with his 1984 novel NEUROMANCER, winning both the Hugo and Nebula Awards. The word and concept of "cyberspace" was invented by him.
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William Ford Gibson (born 17 March 1948) is an American-Canadian writer who has been called the "noir prophet" of the cyberpunk subgenre of science fiction. In 1982, Gibson coined the term "cyberspace" and popularized the concept in his debut novel, Neuromancer (1984). Gibson is best known for depicting a visualised, worldwide communications network before it became ubiquitous in the 1990s, and he is credited with anticipating and establishing the conceptual foundations of the Internet and the World Wide Web in particular.
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- Open Source Radio did a special yesterday on the NSA's indiscriminate, illegal databasing of American citizens' calls, revealed in an expose in yesterday's USA Today. They got William Gibson on for a rare interview and he was fascinating, trying to place this in context as a spasm generated by humanity's inability to master its technologies. Audio starts about 34 minutes in.
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