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Review of Johnny Mnemonic (1981, 1995)
A 1981 short story by William Gibson and a 1995 movie directed by Robert Longo and written by Gibson.
The short story is just 22 pages in paperback and features Gibson’s typical dense language and the cyberpunk world which later provided the backdrop for the Sprawl trilogy Neuromancer, Count Zero, and Mona Lisa Overdrive. I got it in print as a part of the 1986 short story collection Burning Chrome.
Hacker Realism: ⭐️⭐️
Hacker Plot Importance: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐
Hacks: ⭐️⭐️⭐️
The word cyberspace started out as something quite different from what we know it as today. Atelier Cyberspace was created in the 1960s by Danish artist Susanne Ussing and her partner architect Carsten Hoff. Here’s what Hoff said about it in 2015:
To us, "cyberspace" was simply about managing spaces. There was nothing esoteric about it. Nothing digital, either. It was just a tool. The space was concrete, physical.