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stompy William Gibson wrote the seminal cyberpunk novel "Neuromancer" back in the early 80s. Wintermute was an AI in that book.

Gibson invented the term 'Cyberspace' don't you know.

He's one of my favourite authors, and I'm reading his just released novel "Spook Country" at the moment.

damn, you all beat me to it, by several hours (my excuse is kosher though - I was at Herne Hill!)

I'm just reading Neuromancer at the moment. Trouble is I keep reading little bits in highly stimulating environments like tube trains and airports so at this point I'm a bit confused and need to read it again from the beginning. Have you read Pattern Recognition and All Tomorrow's Parties? I read those a while back.

One thing I realised after reading some of Neuromancer is that the Wachowski brothers are thieving little bastards who had no original ideas (apart from that crap about using humans as batteries). I'll forgive them The Matrix, which was
quite entertaining IMO but the sequels II and III ... (shakes head)