The Dystopia of William Gibson's Neuromancer

The Dystopia of the Neuromancer

The Neuromancer is a world of darkness, where the society is slowly becoming corrupted. There is violence, excessive drug use, and lack of individuality, which portray this world as a disturbed and inhumaine society. The Neuromancer is an experiment to see how the society would react if the world was taken over by computers, and everyone were only concerned about themselves and their survival. Unfortunately, it is only a test, which ended up blowing up in their faces. The dystopia of the Neuromancer casts a dark shadow, which destroys the living.

The violence in the Neuromancer is insaine. Constantly, there is someone dead, injured, or running away from someone else. Survival is the key element in living in this type of society. No one has time to think about others, because they are running for their own life. This is the worst society to be involved with. There are guns, knives, blood everywhere, and people crying out for help. The Neuromancer is a world of poverty, and where there is poverty, crime usually occurs. For instance, Case spend the night in a "Cheap Hotel"(19), which he implied was "the most expensive place he ever stayed in. When poverty gets to the point where something cheap is luxury, there is a problem. Case had to sleep in a coffin, a dead man's bed. It is as if he is dying inside that the society around him has gotten to this point of destruction. The "black clinic",(14) where surgery was performed to prolong the lives of humans by means of computers, litterally ripped out the human soul and replaced it with a machine. The human being has died, and only a machine was left to live. That is the reason Case sleeps in a coffin. His soul has died and computers have...

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...o critically think. The same with this artificial intelligence. These people do their duty and move on. When the society becomes this passionless, it becomes dark and dystopic.

Toward the end of the novel, the dystopia has increased. While performing surgery, the doctor took away his ability to get high off of drugs, in order to help him work better. However, now he has no escape method, because the one thing that helped him get his mind off of what is going on has been taken away from him. This artificial intelligence agency has gone too far. They control every aspect of his life. This is where dystopia is at its peak!

When a world becomes the slave to cyberspace, there is a problem. No computer has the right to control human mind. Whether it is for work reason or social reasons, humans must be left to decide on their own rather than computers deciding for them.