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26th November 2010

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by Leigh Turner

Ambassador to Austria and UK Permanent Representative to the United Nations and other International Organisations in Vienna

Cyberpunks and the matrix: Online Kyiv offline

Science fiction has a fine record of guessing the future; but no-one saw the Internet coming.  Honourable mention should be made of the excellent works of William Gibson, credited with inventing the term cyberspace.  Gibson’s 1984 novel Neuromancer, which includes references to something called the Matrix, made a big impression on me.  So did the […]

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