Neuromancer is a brilliant novel, one of my favorites, and by my lights, the book that rearranged science fiction. I know I sound like the eternal fanboy when I say this, but, “This time it might be real.” Apple TV+ may not be the leading force in streaming entertainment today, but it’s established a track record of producing high-quality material and taking some risks along the way.

The truly big news is that Neuromancer has a reasonable chance of being adapted to the screen. The big question Illuminerdi concerns itself with is which actor will play protagonist Case, a drug-abusing hacker hired to pull off a virtual heist in cyberspace. The rapid development of nanotechnologies and Artificial Intelligence (AI) further promise the physical transformation of the human body, and may be ushering in an era of a ‘postbiological humanity’.The Illuminerdi ( via) reports Apple TV+ is tooling up to produce a streaming adaptation of William Gibson’s cyberpunk masterpiece Neuromancer. As Burrows (1997: 239) notes: ‘The boundaries between subjects, their bodies and the outside world are, like everything else, being radically reconfigured …The division between technology and nature is dissolving as the analytic categories we draw upon to give structure to our world – the biological, the technological, the natural, the artificial, and the human – begin to blur.’ Prosthetic limbs and medical implants merge machine and organism to produce hybrids, or ‘cyborgs’, that make the stuff of science fiction a contemporary reality (Haraway, 1991). People develop intimate relationships with machines, thinking about them in psychological and often emotional terms, partly because they are both an extension of the self and part of the external world (Turkle 2005). Gibson’s work is underpinned by the idea that technology and the human are no longer dichotomous.

Has for many earned the status of social and cultural theory (see Burrows, 1997 Brown, Reading 39). His visionary writing on the techno worlds of the near future, however, in addition to winning a string of literary awards’ Sometimes referred to as the Godfather or ‘noir prophet’ of Cyberpunk, William Gibson is not an academic scholar in the traditional sense.