English 1028F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Cyborg, Hard Science Fiction, Armitron

• School: Western University
• Department: English
• Course: English 1028F/G
• Professor: Christopher Keep

Document Summary

Binary code will come to dominate all aspects of human life, and will be done with human machines. The first personal computer came out the year neuromancer was released. Package switching gateways were ways that we started to develop email. Age of the cold war stimulated fear that russia would attack the usa. Package switching gateways would find other routes through remaining network if. Gibson gave new realm the name cyberspace/matrix. Cyberspace is described to be a world that is hallucinated within all of humanity. Humanity has moved out of physical realm, living within a virtual hallucination. Consensual that this is not real, but we allow it to have a personality. Cyberspace: transformation of all human activity is broken up into invisible sequences of code. Gibson wrote neuromancer on a herbes typewriter, in british columbia. Gibson associated with the genre of cyberpunk (pdf note) Fast-paced, rhythm of machines thrusting into the world. Technology that enhances or upgrades the human body.