Cyberspace: From an idea in science fiction, to a place where millions seek an alternative existence
Love, sex, sensory experiences and even crime-it all happens in cyberspace. This abstract ‘space’ that exists in the electronic world, was first conceived by William Gibson in a short story called ‘Burning Chrome’. The term became popular with his 1984 sci-fi novel, Neuromancer. “Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions… A graphic representation of data abstracted from the banks of every computer in the human system…” These lines from the book were just a vision that Gibson had. Twenty-five years on, we know it was bang on.