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cyberspace-matrix

Cyberspace is depicted as a complex, immersive digital environment where Case navigates and encounters AI entities represented as geometric constructs.

1 chapter across 1 book

Neuromancer (1984)William Gibson

Chapter 11

In this chapter, Case and Molly travel aboard the tug Marcus Garvey toward Freeside while discussing the challenges of interacting with artificial intelligences (AIs). Case attempts a dangerous approach to an AI named Wintermute in the matrix, resulting in a blackout and disorientation. He later confronts Wintermute, which manifests through the persona of Julius Deane, revealing the AI's manipulative control and the urgency of Case's upcoming mission.