2003

The term cyberspace was first coined such by William Ford Gibson in a 1984 science fiction novel Neuromancer. The article, "Gibson's cyber-world is now our world," written by Brent Staples from the New York Times on May 12, 2003, describes Gibson's novel and its vision in relation to modern time. Staples defines cyberspace as "the circuits and fibre optics that move data from one place to another as a landscape." This definition implies that cyberspace is the machinery that moves information around the world. The article describes how Gibson's vision was a world that was information saturated where information stealing and protection were a main job of society. This article too describes how Gibson knew the Internet would bring out the worst in society and allow immoral actions to take place anonymously. This is an interesting article because it shows that Gibson was truly before his time and that all of his predictions in his fiction novels have turned out to be non-fiction.