Small samples in the centrifuge will spin at varying rates to create synthetic gravity

"Google me and you can learn that I do it all on a manual typewriter, something that hasn't been true since 1985, but which makes such an easy hook for a lazy journalist that I expect to be reading it for the rest of my life. I only used a typewriter because that was what everyone used in 1977, and it was manual because that was what I happened to have been able to get, for free. I did avoid the Internet, but only until the advent of the Web turned it into such a magnificent opportunity to waste time that I could no longer resist. Today I probably spend as much time there as I do anywhere, although the really peculiar thing about me, demographically, is that I probably watch less than twelve hours of television in a given year, and have watched that little since age fifteen. (An individual who watches no television is still a scarcer beast than one who doesn't have an email address.) I have no idea how that happened. It wasn't a decision."-William Gibson

Anyone born after BLADE RUNNER is more then likely to have a twinge of recognition for the term Cyberpunk as it has become increasingly embedded into the mainstream collective of pop culture. Obviously the Matrix movies (Though they claim the inspiration was the cartoon Ghost in A Shell) owe heavy amounts of debt if not about 80% of the royalties to Mr Gibson. Way back in 1983, Gibson sparked sparked a whole new genre of fiction dealing with emerging technologies and it is safe to say that if we had any sense of history and justice this man would be seen as a revolutionary writer for a world obsessed with interfacing themselves with more and more technology. I come back to this book every few years and am continually surprised by how fresh it seems: I am also reminded by how many hacks lifted things from this book to foist on unassuming youngsters as fresh and dazzling in the post modern world.....you be the judge- Here is a copy of the the book that started it all

Neuromancer is a 1984 novel by William Gibson, notable for being the most famous early cyberpunk novel and winner of the so-called science-fiction "triple crown"—the Nebula Award, the Philip K. Dick Award, and the Hugo Award. It was Gibson's first novel and the beginning of the Sprawl trilogy. The novel tells the story of a washed up computer hacker hired by a mysterious employer to work on the ultimate hack. Gibson explores artificial intelligence, virtual reality, genetic engineering, and multinational corporations overpowering the traditional nation-state long before these ideas entered popular culture. The concept of cyberspace makes its first appearance, with Gibson inventing the word to describe "a consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions."
The novel appeared on Time magazine's list of 100 best English-language novels written since 1923. However, it is worth noting that Gibson did not invent the term Matrix which was first introduced by:Doctor Who story The Deadly Assassin introduced its own Matrix in 1976, with substantial similarities.

This is a two part post the first being the literature and the second being music which fits into the overall theme of cyber punk-so stay tuned and thanks for reading..

Neuromancer