All I knew about the word 'cyberspace' when I coined it, was that it seemed like an effective buzzword. It seemed evocative and essentially meaningless. It was suggestive of something, but had no real semantic meaning, even for me, as I saw it emerge on the page.

I became so frustrated with my inability to physically move the characters through the imaginary narrative space, that I actually developed an early form of im…

It will bring about the extinction of the nation-state as we know it... I think it will be as big a deal as the creation of cities.

Seated each afternoon in the darkened screening room, Halliday came to recognise the targetted numerals of the Academy leader as sigils preceding the dream sta…