The word " cyberspace " ( from cybernetics and space ) was coined by science fiction novelist and seminal cyberpunk author William Gibson in his 1982 story " Burning Chrome " and popularized by his 1984 novel Neuromancer.

The term hipster was coined by Harry Gibson in 1940.

The terms " meatspace " and " meat world " are apparently derived originally from the science fiction novel Neuromancer by William Gibson, published in 1984, which also coined the term " cyberspace.

The term was coined by William Gibson in his story " The Gernsback Continuum ": " Cohen introduced us and explained that Dialta noted pop-art historian was the prime mover behind the latest Barris-Watford project, an illustrated history of what she called " American Streamlined Modern.

The term coolhunter, not coined by Gibson but used in the marketing industry for several years, is used to describe Cayce's profession of identifying the roots of emerging trends.

He is also noted as the pitcher who gave up a dramatic, walk-off home run ( a phrase Eckersley coined after this home run ) to the injured Kirk Gibson in Game 1 of the 1988 World Series.

According to Maddox, he coined the term in the manuscript of an unpublished story that he showed to Gibson at a science fiction convention in Portland, Oregon.

The term was quickly appropriated as a label to be applied to the works of William Gibson, Bruce Sterling, Pat Cadigan and others.

William Gibson with his novel Neuromancer ( 1984 ) is likely the most famous writer connected with the term cyberpunk.

The term " cyberspace " was first used by the cyberpunk science fiction author William Gibson, though the concept was described somewhat earlier, for example in the Vernor Vinge short story " True Names ," and even earlier in John M. Ford's novel, Web of Angels.

Gibson later commented on the origin of the term in the 2000 documentary No Maps for These Territories:

Gibson heard the term " flatlining " in a bar around twenty years before writing Neuromancer and it stuck with him.

The term " amphitheatre " is also used ( incorrectly ) for some indoor venues such as the Gibson Amphitheatre.

Science fiction novelist William Gibson used the term in his novels Count Zero and Mona Lisa Overdrive, as did Bruce Sterling in Islands in the Net.

Gibson created the term mirror-world to acknowledge a locational-specific distinction in a manufactured object that emerged from a parallel development process, for example opposite-side driving or varied electrical outlets.

Author William Gibson in his novel Zero History uses the term " Mitty demographic " to describe young men that want to dress like soldiers and have an " equipment fetishism " for products that are derived from police and military equipment.

A businessman from Wadesboro, North Carolina, Gibson was serving in his eighth term in the state House when, in 2011, he announced he would resign to become Gov.

Psychologist James J. Gibson originally introduced the term in his 1977 article " The Theory of Affordances " and explored it more fully in his book The Ecological Approach to Visual Perception in 1979.

One of the earliest records with the usage of the term can be found in the 1946 recording by Harry Gibson " What's his Story ?," which includes the stanza:

The term was popularized by William Gibson in his short story " Burning Chrome ", which also introduced the term cyberspace, and his subsequent novel Neuromancer.

He was elected to the United States Senate on November 5, 1940, to fill the vacancy in the term ending January 3, 1945, caused by the death of Ernest W. Gibson, and was re-elected in 1944, 1950, 1956, 1962, and 1968.

Following his term as Governor of South Carolina, he became agent to the Cherokee at Fort Gibson ( present day Muskogee County, Oklahoma ), a post he held until 1846.

" Megacorporation " is a term popularized by William Gibson derived from the combination of the prefix mega-with the word corporation.

Pioneering blues-rock guitarist Lonnie Mack was known for using a Bigsby on his famous 1958 Gibson Flying V. The term whammy bar is believed to derive from Mack's 1963 instrumental hit, " Wham!

Although this term normally refers to World War II, when used to describe Gibson banjos the term prewar operationally refers to banjos made prior to 1947.

" Cyberpunk is often set in urbanized, artificial landscapes, and " city lights, receding " was used by Gibson as one of the genre's first metaphor s for cyberspace.

Before Neuromancer, Gibson had written several short stories for prominent science fiction periodicals – mostly noir countercultural narratives concerning low-life protagonists in near-future encounters with cyberspace.

In envisaging cyberspace, Gibson created an iconography for the information age before the ubiquity of the Internet in the 1990s.

Most commonly, they are simply taken from a word used in the narrative of a book ; a few representative examples are: " grok " ( to achieve complete intuitive understanding ), from Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein ; " McJob ", from Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture by Douglas Coupland ; " cyberspace ", from Neuromancer by William Gibson ; " nymphet " from Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov.

Following Fender's lead, Gibson released the first short scale violin-shaped electric bass with extendable end pin in 1953, allowing it to be played upright or horizontally.

Gibson defined cyberpunk's antipathy towards utopian SF in his 1981 short story " The Gernsback Continuum ," which pokes fun at and, to a certain extent, condemns utopian science fiction.

The films Johnny Mnemonic and New Rose Hotel, both based upon short stories by William Gibson, flopped commercially and critically.

He had also separated from his girlfriend of seven years, singer-artist Jill Gibson, later a member for a short time of The Mamas & the Papas, who had also co-written several songs with him.

Gibson has written more than twenty short stories and ten critically acclaimed novels ( one in collaboration ), and has contributed articles to several major publications and collaborated extensively with performance artists, filmmakers and musicians.

It was a loosely based on the short story " Johnny Mnemonic " by William Gibson.

St. Louis won the deciding contest 7-2 behind their best pitcher Bob Gibson ; Gibson defeated Boston ace Jim Lonborg, who was pitching on short rest and was ineffective.

Before writing Pattern Recognition, the author, William Gibson, published seven novels ( one co-written ) and numerous short stories beginning in 1977.

In 1998, Amano appeared as Hiroshi in the 1998 movie New Rose Hotel, loosely based on the William Gibson short story of the same name.

** Margaret Gibson, novelist and short story writer ( d. 2006 )

* Kingdom Come ( 1919 film ), a Western short featuring Hoot Gibson

* The 1995 film Johnny Mnemonic, based on the short story by William Gibson, stars Keanu Reeves as a digital courier with 320 GB of corporate data transported in his head.

" New Rose Hotel " is a short story by William Gibson, first published in 1984 in Omni and later included in his 1986 collection Burning Chrome.

Burning Chrome ( ISBN 978-0-06-053982-5 ) is a collection of short stories written by William Gibson.

Smith had only been home for a short while when he was called to accompany Ezra T. Benson and Lorenzo Snow, William W. Cluff and Alma T. Smith on a second mission to the Sandwich Islands to correct the problems caused by Walter M. Gibson.

** Though utilizing a 24-fret fingerboard, the scale length of the Red Special is a short 24 " ( 609. 6 mm ); compared to the Gibson standard of 24. 75 " ( 628. 65 mm ) and Fender's common 25. 5 " ( 647. 7 mm ) scale lengths, this creates a looser feel for the strings, which is conducive to May's extensive use of string bending and his wide vibrato.

* Chrome, a character in the short story Burning Chrome by William Gibson

William Gibson later stated that " while the mini-series fell drastically short of the serial, it did produce one admirably peculiar literary artifact, The Wild Palms Reader " ( to which he contributed ).

" Johnny Mnemonic " is a short story by William Gibson, and the inspiration behind the 1995 film of the same name.

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 ).