Cyberspace
An annotated collection of 3 books on cyberspace, spanning 1984 to 1997. Featuring works by William Gibson, Neal Stephenson, Pierre Lévy — each with editorial commentary oriented to digital product practice.
Neuromancer
Gibson coined the word "cyberspace" in a short story two years earlier, but Neuromancer gave it a geography. The novel describes a "consensual hallucination" — a graphical representation of data abstracted from the banks…
Snow Crash
If Gibson imagined cyberspace as an abstract datascape, Stephenson imagined it as an inhabited city. The "Metaverse" in Snow Crash is a virtual boulevard with real estate, architecture, social stratification, and economi…
Cyberculture
Lévy's project was to provide a philosophical framework for the emerging digital culture at a moment when most commentary oscillated between utopian celebration and dystopian panic. He refused both. Drawing on his earlie…