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Burning Chrome by William Gibson

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Ted Gioia
Jan 01, 2000
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Back in 1982, William Gibson coined the term “cyberspace,” and his first novel, Neuromancer, published two years later, explored a virtual reality landscape with a vividness of detail and intensity of conception that proved remarkably prescient. As a result, Gibson is now heralded as the great prognosticator. But his accuracy in predicting the future ha…

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