His work has appeared in popular media, including the covers of Herbie Hancock's Future Shock, Sound-System, and Perfect Machine albums and an electronic version of William Gibson’s Neuromancer.
The title phrase "jacking in to the matrix" appears frequently in (and is probably a reference to) the novel Neuromancer by William Gibson.
The title of the album and many of the songs were inspired by the novels and short stories of William Gibson, including Neuromancer ("Black Ice" and "Terminal Beach" are both references from that novel), Count Zero (referring to the name of the novel as well as the hacker handle of one of the protagonists), and the short story The Winter Market (Kings of Sleep is the name of a fictional stim-album in that story).
The band's name was taken from the final section of William Gibson's cyberpunk science-fiction novel Neuromancer.
In the 1984 science fiction novel Neuromancer by William Gibson, a plastic ashtray branded with Tsingdao Beer is mentioned in a scene taking place in the bar The Chatsubo.
The password was "Chiba City", a likely reference to the William Gibson novel "Neuromancer."
Robert Trappl credits William Gibson and his novel Neuromancer with triggering a "cyber- prefix flood" in the 1980s.
Molly Millions, fictional character also known as "Steppin' Razor", in the 1984 cyberpunk novel Neuromancer by William Gibson