ABSTRACT

Gibsonian cyberspace William Gibson coined the phrase ‘cyberspace’. Gibson’s fictional conception of cyberspace was of a place that collated all the information in the world and could be entered by disembodied consciousnesses. Disembodiment took place through a computer. Gibsonian cyberspace offers power to those who can manipulate information in cyberspace, either individual hackers relying on expertise or large institutions relying on corporate muscle.