Being digital
Masters of Deception
Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace
Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace
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The term cyberspace was the invention of the science- fiction novelist William Gibson. As described in his book Neuromancer (Gibson, 1984) and several later novels, cyberspace was an artificial environment created by and maintained by computers. Transcending two-dimensional audio-visual movies, his three-dimensional cyberspace conveyed realistic detail to all five senses and supported remote intimacy. In Count Zero (Gibson, 1986), the second of his cyberspace trilogy, for instance, the character Josef Virek seems to be interviewing another, Marly Krushkhova, face to face in Barcelona, though in fact she is sitting alone in an office in Brussels. Such technologically simulated experience has come to be known as virtual reality. The Sterling quote above may have been prompted by what Gibson wrote in the third novel of the sequence, Mona Lisa Overdrive (Gibson, 1988): "There's no there, there. They taught that to children, explaining cyberspace."