The Representative of Data

"The core data began to emerge, exposed and vulnerable... "

Text from Burning Chrome, William Gibson, 1986; screenshot from Tomorrow never Dies.

The Beginnings of Cyberpunk

Image Creator from Designer, Bing

“The Matrix has its roots in primitive arcade games,' said the voice-over, 'in early graphics programs and military experimentation with cranial jacks. ¹ '"

William Gipson, Neromancer

I recently listen to commenter speak about Delany,s "Nova". The commenter mentioned that William Gipson and his cyberpunk novels had many influencers such as Philip K. Dick, Michael Moorcock, Roger Zelazny, John Brunner, J. G. Ballard, Philip José Farmer and Harlan Ellison, all were part of the New Wave science fiction movement of the 60's and 70s.

The following excerpt from "Delany's Nova" even envisioned humans "jacking into" the ships computer system, thus becoming one with it:

"Mouse reached around to the small of his back beneath his vest, and felt for the socket. It had been grafted into the base of his spine cord back in Cooper. He picked up the first reflex cable that looped across the floor to disappear into the computers face, and fiddled with it till the twelve prongs slipped into his socket and caught. He took the smaller, six-prong plug and slipped it into the plug on the underside of his left wrist; them the other into his right."

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¹ "Cranial Jacks are human-computer interface devices, designed to connect directly to the brain/brain stem in order to control complex machinery."

Burning Chrome - The Matrix

"The core data began to emerge, exposed and vulnerable... This is the far side of ice ¹, the view of the matrix ² I've never seen before, the view that fifteen million legitimate console operators see daily and take for granted."

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¹ "ICE: Intrusion CounterMeasures Electroncs"

² "The matrix is an abstract representation of the relationship between data systems."

Burning Chrome, Burning Chrome, William Gibson, 1986

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• Quotes from Burning Chrome,
• Literature in a Wired World Wiki: Burning Chrome

Edited on 12.16.23, added link to Burning Chrome Quotes AND etc. @ 10:45 AM.

Machine City

“Banished from humanity, The Machines sought refuge in their own promised land. They settled in the cradle of human civilization, and thus a new nation was born; a place the Machines could call home, a place they could raise their descendants, and they christened the nation 'Zero-One'.”

Machine City or Synthient City was the home to the machines in the world of the Matrix.

Matrix Greeble

Matrix Greeble

This image was found within the bonus features folder of a Matrix DVD.

The Architecture of the Matrix

This gate in Zion is an example of steampunk architecture, with its frabrication and rust, not to mention the Armored Personnel Unit sent to defend it.

"Although there were only 350 of these left at the end of Battle of Zion more than 120,000 units were."

The Matrix Revolutions

Scenes from The Matrix Reloaded

Landing the Nebuchadnezzar in Zion

The Nebuchadnezzar Safely Landed

Scenes from Zion

The Nebuchadnezzar

The Nebuchadnezzar, a ship of sort, was repurposed by the human rebels to covertly broadcast the minds of up to seven people into the Matrix.

The control room is where all excursions into the Matrix are monitored and controled.

The Matrix

System Failure

The Matrix is all around us.