Tech History Made on March 17, 1948

On this day William Ford Gibson III was born. Gibson is a science fiction writer who first coined the word "cyberspace" in a short story in 1981. He then used the term in his novel Neuromancer. Here is the quote from the book "Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts... A graphic representation of data abstracted from the banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity. Lines of light ranged in the nonspace of the mind, clusters and constellations of data. Like city lights, receding...". Today what we call "cyberspace" is the networked world of modern computerized communication. Gibson's books continued in this vain and lead to the realm of sci-fi called cyberpunk.