Man Who Coined the Term "Cyberspace" Says He Can’t Send Emails – Futurism

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Influential sci-fi author William Gibson, widely credited with coining the term cyberspace and imagining an ahead-of-its time vision of the internet back in his 1984 novel Neuromancer, is having computer trouble.

Current contact info, he tweeted today. If you email me, I receive it, but a glitch is making it impossible for me to email you my reply. If you text me at my usual number, no problem! So I am TEXT ONLY, til further!

Its ironic, sure, but Gibson has often been a slow adopter of technologies he predicted before they existed.

And even though he dreamed up one of the most lasting visions of the internet a decade before it went mainstream, he remains unimpressed with the way its played out in real life.

Cyberspace, as described in Neuromancer, is nothing at all like the Internet that we live with, which consists mostly of utterly banal and silly stuff, he told NPR last year.

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