NTT is releasing a 3D web browser that looks a little like how I imagined jacking into cyberspace through your Ono Sendai would look when reading Neuromancer by William Gibson, although my cyberspace was much darker and a little more Tron-like.
Neuromancer is one of my top books of all time. It blew me away when I read it, and that was when I was firmly a ‘cyberpunk’ as a colleague of the time called me. When it was released in 1984, it must have been even more awesome – William Gibson invented the term cyberspace in Neuromancer.
I loved the idea of visually moving through a virtual world representing cyberspace, where sites were portrayed as physical objects that you could interact with or attack.
If you haven’t read Neuromancer, put your mouse down now and go and do so.