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Transformation
As technology evolves, we integrate it into our bodies, our lives, and the world around us. Even today, pacemakers keep hearts pumping, trains alter landscapes, and computers combine trillions of 1s and 0s into entire worlds for exploration à la World of Warcraft. This brings about transformation through technology. The question then, is whether or not this is a good thing. To paraphrase the wise Dr. Malcolm from Jurassic Park, just because we can doesn't necessarily mean we should. It's all rather ambivalent, both in Neuromancer and in real life.
Bottom line? Neuromancer shows that transformation through technology is an essential part of being human.
On the flip side, transforming ourselves too much through technology would make us something other than human. In academic circles, this is called posthumanism (post as in "after"), and it's a wee bit creepy.
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