Howard Roark

Interviewer: But it’s not just the word, it’s the idea of a virtual reality inside a computer network, where did that come from?
William Gibson: My input for doing that was my experience of the very first Sony Walkman as a really intimate interface device that I could carry around. My observation of the body-language of kids playing those early plywood sided arcade games. I saw those kids playing those games, and I knew they wanted to reach right through the screen and get with what they were playing with there, and I thought, well, there is a space behind the screen and everybody’s got these things at some level, maybe only metaphorically, those spaces are the same space, and as soon as I thought that I had it! 

Excerpt from: Mark Neale (director), No Maps For These Territories, documentary, 89min (2000)

Cyberspace - William Gibson (by edwingardner)