Technology In William Gibson's Neuromancer

The technology has an effect on human society. The entire social, economic and political systems were transformed and are different from the modern world. The world of “Neuromancer” is very dystopian: the presence of the polluted environment, culture where the reality is devalued and social system controlled by corporations (Miller and Wagner-Martin 56). The opening scene in “Neuromancer” shows not only the obsession with media but, also, Case’s seeing the world in terms of a machine: “The sky above the port was the color of television, turned to a dead channel” (Westfahl 66). Gibson’s novel shows a double-edge attitude towards machines: the technology can be useful but at the same, in this universe, it is alien and threatening to humans. The Gibson’s universe presents a world where humans fight to survive in urban jungle, where the most dangerous predators are the

In this story, the real world and digital blend together, and, sometimes, it becomes hard to distinguish what is real and what isn’t. Towards the end of the story, “Neuromancer” sucks Case into his virtual world, as his last attempt to stop Case from accomplishing his mission, where he comes across Linda Lee, his ex-girlfriend, on the beach, who offers him to stay with her. Case’s experiences in this virtual world seem real to him (examples: sex, sleep and food), this shows that the influence of the body persists beyond the physical world: the human body is already a cybernetic system and is codded in a way that prepares or hinders its evolution beyond the physical body into the digital existence (Miller and Wagner-Martin 62-63). Ultimately, Case is proposed, by “Neuromancer” to embrance immortality as digital data, but Case refuses and returns to the physical world