William Gibson; Alan Turing

How cyberspace used to look.

A very good reference site for Turing, maintained by Turing's biographer, Andrew Hodges. The same site's index.

An Enigma machine.

Dilbert's boss takes a Turing Test.

Extremely effective, and therefore unpredictable, learning machines.

Neuromancer, the game, the first edition, another early edition.

An elegant nonacademic reference site for Gibson, with pages specific to Neuromancer (site has been up and down lately).

Riding the monorail in the real Chiba City, Japan.

A dead television channel?

In the midst of life we are in something else.

The same cultural moment as this famous film.

Some complicated visual information (the Tokyo subway). A lot more (not specific to computers) about the visual display of information.

OMNI magazine. Another early issue. Another issue, apparently with Gibson's "Johnny Mnemonic."

One metaphor for personality. With an early-80s look.

The arcade game that must be one source for how cyberspace looks.

A world of commerce and commerce. And then, not commerce.

Whether it's wires or wetware, data has to be stored somewhere.

Something's up with vision. A symbol for cyberpunk. The resulting anthology.

New ways to move through space, or think about space.

Who controls what territory, what space?

Haitian voodoo divinities.

The end of the novel repeats a famous quest.

So does this work of art, and this one, with this guy.

What people thought high tech images looked like in the early 1980s: two minutes of highlights from the movie TRON.