William Gibson's Hallucination

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hallucination as he states it, then how ‘billions’ of people would see it; regarding the fact that an hallucination is not real, it is just a representation of a dizzy spirit. This is just an example among many others proving that Gibson had its own representation and explanation of his world, and one may think that he can define his virtual world as he wants; he is the creator of this space and acts as a god upon it. But it is fair to add and notice that, at that time, Gibson was ignorant of computer technology, and he definitely did not work on one while writing the novel. He wrote about technology without knowing anything about it, cyberspace is thus a sort of metaphor of his brilliance. This is how he influenced so many writers after publishing

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