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"I think we're still on that topic, still trying to figure out what computers are, how they change us, why we use them."
- Neal Stephenson
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| Datumplane | ||
| The workspace of console cowboys - the matrix. |
| "Think. Datumplane is itself an abstract. A commingling of computer and AI-generated dataspheres and the quasi-perceptual Gibsonian matrix designed originally for human operators, now accepted as common ground for man, machine and AI." |
| Technovelgy from Hyperion,
by Dan Simmons. Published by Doubleday in 1989 Additional resources -
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Essentially, this is Simmon's word for the matrix from Gibson's 1982 story Burning Chrome and Neuromancer.
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