“A year here and he still dreamed of cyberspace, hope fading nightly. All the speed he took, all the turns he'd taken and the corners he'd cut in Night City, and still he'd see the matrix in his sleep, bright lattices of logic unfolding across that colorless void.” (Gibson 4-5).
“He realized that the glasses were surgically inset, sealing her sockets. The silver lenses seemed to grow from smooth pale skin above her cheekbones, framed by dark hair cut in a rough shag. The fingers curled around the fletcher were slender, white, tipped with polished burgundy. The nails looked artificial.” (Gibson 24).
Technology has progressed so much since this novel was written in 1984 but there has been two constant that has been associated its addictive qualities and how it takes away from human personalities. The first quote happens within the first few pages of the novel and right off the bat the reader notices how much technology is a part of everyday living in this futuristic setting. Much like someone of today’s era Case is constantly thinking about going into cyberspace and has trouble living without it. The second quotation is an example of how we are becoming more and more like/dependent on technology. The quote is describing Molly’s appearance and it is fitting that the first thing that Case notices are her inset glasses rather than her physical features.
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