Uses of Technology in William Gibson's Neuromancer

Abstract

With the technological transformation, human beings are also expected to change, transform and evolve. The advancements in bionics, computer and technological devices, cognitive and communication sciences, and robotics, have altered the perception of the human body and made it into more of a design object. Transhumanism stresses that future human beings would be capable of redesigning their bodies, in hope to transcend to a more evolved and higher being.

This paper focuses on William Gibson's cyberpunk novel Neuromancer in the light of the concepts of transhumanism, cyberpunk, bionics, singularities, augmented reality, virtual reality, mind uploading, and artificial intelligence.