William Gibson's Neuromancer.
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William Gibson is well known for driving his cyberpunk knowledge to the limit of imagination, depicting possible realities of tomorrow. I definitely disagree with the critics accusing him of writing anti-humanist novels that glorify technology and downgrade human society in the name of progress. I believe that these opinions and critics are mainly based on the idea of the Neuromancer as an unreal ultramodern world, where human society and individuality are relegated by technology. According to Gibson's future world, technology becomes more than fundamental, which is one of the reasons why some people (possibly technophobes) are shocked as shown by the critics. It is therefore the purpose of this essay to justify that William Gibson's Neuromancer is not an anti-humanist novel. Negative criticisms about Gibson's writing accuse him of pushing reality to the extreme where the materials of our own expertise are valorized over human values of society. Indeed,...

