"In his afterword to the 2000 re-issue of Neuromancer, fellow author Jack Womack goes as far as to suggest that Gibson's vision of cyberspace may have inspired the way in which the Internet developed (particularly the World Wide Web), after the publication of Neuromancer in 1984. He asks "[w]hat if the act of writing it down, in fact, brought it about?" (269)."
Ah, fair enough. I guess I don't see much similarities. Then again, having been born after the book was published, I suppose that I was shaped by the very world imagined in the novel, and so I might be unable to analyze it objectively the way readers born decades before can.
