The More Things Change, The More....
             "Everything that can be invented, has been invented."
             In hindsight this statement seems ridiculous . Since 1899, the world has seen a multitude of societal changing inventions . From the airplane ,the television , countless of vaccines and most recently the Internet , man has continued to evolve at an exponential rate. Nevertheless, this is not to say that these inventions were so avant-garde at their inception. The truth is that technological advancement only replies to the needs of the consumer. Therefore, everything has been invented , at least in our minds . Technology is not independent of us , but rather a mirror of our deepest wants . The promise of technology is simply the satiating of these urges . In William Gibson's science fiction classic Neuromancer we find a vision of the future with metaphors to the present. Like in most novels , it is the allegorical aspect that is worth study. Therefore, this essay will not argue how the novel is prophetic in the conventional sense , for this teaches us nothing . In!
             stead, it will examine how the promise of technology is representative of the ugliness that creates it. This is shown in the reckless lifestyle of Case , the importance given to artificial intelligence and lastly through the personification of the technology.
             Case is simply a vehicle to show how ugly the future of technology can be . His name is even representative of this task. He is essentially a "case" holding the cyberspace that Gibson has created. "He'd operated on an almost permanent adrenaline high, a byproduct of youth and proficiency, jacked into a common cyberspace deck that projected his disembodied consciousness into the consensual hallucination that was the matrix. (Neuromancer 5). " This passage bluntly tells of Case's life prior to stealing from his employers . He was nothing more then a content cyborg , always "Jacked in" . His "c...