A Bleak Vision of Tomorrow in Neuromancer While the optimism is quite high as they set out on the journey, the power of their all-knowing opponent soon leaves them to wonder if they’re in over their heads… which they are. However, a person of Case’s talents can always be useful to someone, and it doesn’t take long until a mysterious new employer rears his head, offering Case the last opportunity for the redemption he’s so desperately seeking.Īll he has to do is go on a run in cyberspace and pit himself against an unbelievably powerful artificial intelligence with a motley crew of potential criminals as his companions. They crippled his nervous system and essentially banished him from practising his illegal career.
Case was the best of the best, capable of navigating cyberspace like few others could ever dream… until a job led him to crossing the wrong people. This new world turns out to be a ripe breeding ground for a new type of criminal: the data-thief. The story which essentially kick-started the genre begins by presenting a vision of the future which we’re already familiar with to an extent: a world dominated by the digital world and the rapid development of new technologies, including artificial intelligence. The cyberpunk genre, most notably, has spread through all facets of the modern entertainment industry, but it can trace its roots all the way back to 1984, when William Gibson published Neuromancer, the first entry in the Sprawl Trilogy. The alarmingly growing rate of technological development has invariably popularized fiction which touches on the topic of the dark alleyways it could lead humanity down.
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