Tag: Gibson
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From Flatline to Frontline: How Gibson’s Digital Ghosts Became Scientific Reality
When William Gibson wrote about the “Dixie Flatline” in his 1984 masterpiece Neuromancer, he imagined a digital consciousness – a saved recording of a deceased hacker’s personality that could be consulted for expertise and insights. The character, based on the late McCoy Pauley, was a “ROM construct,” a digital ghost that retained the memories, skills,…