Neuromancer (Gibson, 1984)
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William Gibson's 1984 novel, written on a manual typewriter by an author with almost no computer experience, which gave the culture the word cyberspace, the image of the console cowboy, and ICE for intrusion countermeasures.
Its influence runs the wrong way round: the fiction shaped the engineering. A generation of hackers, and later the people who built virtual worlds, cryptocurrency and the modern web's metaphors, were reading Gibson first. The famous opening line about a sky the colour of a dead television now reads differently than it did, since televisions changed - which Gibson has noted with amusement. He also supplied the field's most quoted maxim about unevenly distributed futures.
Also known as: william gibson, cyberspace, console cowboy, ice