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Originally Posted by Kasper Hviid
Thanks, great suggestions! 
Never read William Gibson, but isn't his VR a bit dated today? My gut feeling is that his VR visions were some kinda neon-colored wonderland for hackers and geeks. |
Gibson's cyberspace was whatever conveyed the story he was trying to tell and set the mood he was trying to evoke. "The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel." He readily admitted that he knew practically nothing about computers and computer networks when he wrote his early stories. But then, his work, like that of his contemporaries, wasn't about the technology but the kind of urban shellshock that arises from technology advancing faster than people can keep up.
ObRecommendation:
Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson. Another story in which a virtual reality world has a significant purpose.