5 Aug
1999
5 Aug
'99
4:44 a.m.
I know this isn't a sci-fi list, but Gibson's
Neuromancer has had
something to do with shaping the public's image of what a "hacker"
is...Case, sending his neural essence through the global matrix to "hack"
systems...espionage, intrigue, dark, sinister...
Of course, back in those days in the early 80s, Gibson had never
touched a computer and knew nothing about how they worked, let
alone communications and networking. He knew almost as much about
computers as Edgar Rice Burroughs knew about Africa when ERB wrote
the first Tarzan novel.
Ward Griffiths <mailto:gram@cnct.com> <http://www.cnct.com/home/gram/>
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