Neuromancer
Metadata
- Author: William Gibson
Highlights
No terminal, nothing. Light from the alley behind the arcade, filtering in through sootblown plastic.
“Get your security up here,” Case told her.
“Get your security up here,” Case told her.
Notes
cf. Some book
Some reference
gun. His few movements were increasingly sclerotic.
Power, in Case’s world, meant corporate power. The zaibatsus, the multinationals that shaped the course of human history, had transcended old barriers. Viewed as organisms, they had attained a kind of immortality. You couldn’t kill a zaibatsu by assassinating a dozen key executives; there were others waiting to step up the ladder, assume the vacated position, access the vast banks of corporate memory. But Tessier-Ashpool wasn’t like that, and he sensed the difference in the death of its founder. T-A was an atavism, a clan.
The man is only as pkwerful ad his corporation, abd obly for a limited time