In 1915 she persuaded her friend, Irish language activist William Gibson, (Liam Mac Giolla Bhríde (1868–1942), second Lord Ashbourne, to donate a trophy for the camogie intervarsity competition.
Drawing musical inspirations the electro-industrial sound of Skinny Puppy & Front Line Assembly, and conceptual inspiration from the 'cyberpunk' works of William Gibson.
The Curta is referenced in chapter four of William Gibson's Pattern Recognition.
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.
William Gibson, science fiction writer and founder of the cyberpunk movement
Robert Trappl credits William Gibson and his novel Neuromancer with triggering a "cyber- prefix flood" in the 1980s.
The Scotsmen William Gibson and Alexander Keiller opened a factory for production of sail- and tent cloth.
Reviewer Glenn Carter of Comics Bulletin described SAM119 issue 1 as: "a blend of Cyberpunk, William Gibson, and George Orwell", and there are clear indications of the influence of writers such as Gibson on the work.
It is used by William Gibson in his 2007 novel Spook Country as a meeting place between the protagonist Hollis Henry and her employer Hubertus Bigend On Wednesday March 9, 2011 WWE superstar John Morrison and WWE Diva Melina were banned from the SkyBar when they jumped in the pool.
The Sprawl, the metropolitan region stretching from Boston to Atlanta in the same named William Gibson's fiction trilogy
The backstory of the game has some similarities to William Gibson and Bruce Sterling's novel, The Difference Engine, also set in an alternate history Victorian age.
The description of the Troposphere has been compared to the novels of Neal Stephenson and William Gibson, and shares similarities to The Matrix.
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.
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Band members have stated that the album is directly influenced by sci-fi author William Gibson and inventor-futurist Ray Kurzweil.
In previous years, guests have included prominent Canadian writers including Élisabeth Vonarburg, Nalo Hopkinson, Patrick Senécal, Geoff Ryman, Guy Gavriel Kay, Yves Meynard, William Gibson, Peter Watts, Karl Schroeder, etc., as well as internationally renowned authors including Samuel Delany, Ted Chiang, Michael Swanwick, Jean-Claude Dunyach, James Morrow, Valerio Evangelisti, Laurent Genefort, and others.
In William Gibson's 2007 novel Spook Country, chapter 26 is dedicated to (and titled after) the Gray's Papaya on 8th Avenue; the Recession Special is also mentioned as a meal of the characters.
In the novel Zero History by William Gibson, the character Hubertus Bigend has a suit made of material in IKB.
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).
He is best known for his 2002 book Postmodern Anarchism, which develops an account of postmodern anarchism through philosophers such as Friedrich Nietzsche and cyberpunk writers such as William Gibson and Bruce Sterling.
The character "Michael Godwin" in The Difference Engine by Bruce Sterling and William Gibson was named after Godwin as thanks for his technical assistance in linking their computers to allow them to collaborate between Austin and Vancouver.
Among NYSTI's count of more than forty-five premiere productions are William Gibson's “Rag Dolly,” which toured to Moscow in 1986 (a later version opened on Broadway as Raggedy Ann) and Paul Shyre's “Hizzoner!,” starring Tony Lo Bianco, which won five Emmy awards in a WNET/13 co-production and later played on Broadway before touring to Moscow in 1989.
Simstim, a technology in William Gibson's Sprawl trilogy of science fiction novels, whereby a person's brain and nervous system is stimulated to simulate the full sensory experience of another person.
The band's name was taken from the final section of William Gibson's cyberpunk science-fiction novel Neuromancer.