For those of you who weren't paying attention at
the time:
Back in 1983 an old acidhead named William Gibson
sat down at his Hermes 3000 manual typewriter and banged out
what was to become the most popular science
fiction novel of that decade...
Concerning people plugging their brains directly
into their computers, Gibson's novel was originally titled
Jacked In.
The publishers feared this sounded
too much like "jacked off", and changed the title to a
more marketable Neuromancer.
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