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What is Cyberspace?

David G.W. Birch & S. Peter Buck | Gibson's console cowboys

Aug 10, 2023
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A brief essay about William Gibson’s conception of cyberspace, and how it’s more of a description of the present than a prediction, originally hosted on the EFF website. It’s unclear when it was written— it may have been as late as 1996, but I have reason to believe it was published earlier.

Like John Perry Barlow’s very prescient (and moving) essay abou…

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