The Greatest Opening Line of All Time - Exploring Neuromancer

In this video I discuss the opening line of Neuromancer and why it might be the best intro to a story of all time. We dive into Cyberpunk, and how Neuromancer's place in literature highlights our changing media landscape. I also mention a bit of media theory and how the words we use to describe ourselves are connected to the technology of our time.

Artists showcased in the video:
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[EDIT] Just a quick update - the credits for the 3D image labelled as Apple TV Promo are in fact not an Apple TV promotional image (although it was shared online as such) the original source for those images are here: https://www.behance.net/gallery/70636...

Photos of William Gibson:

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(09:09) Photo by Frédéric de Villamil CC BY-SA 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...)
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(10:04) Video of William Gibson Interview:
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Timestamps:
00:00 The Beginning
00:40 Introducing Neuromancer
02:28 The Sky in the 1980s
04:58 The Sky in the 2000s and Now
07:24 Neil Postman and Media Theory
09:04 William Gibson
10:28 The Sky Above...
11:50 Cyberpunk
12:47 The Sky Hasn't Changed
13:07 Outro


"The sky above the port was the color of television...." -William Gibson