Neuromancer setting

As I was reading the novel Neuromancer, I stumbled upon a few passages that leads the readers to the main setting of the book. One of the passages that caught my eye was when Gibson wrote "It was a Sprawl voice and a Sprawl joke." This tells the readers that the main character, Case, is either from Sprawl or had been living there for very long time because of the way he recognizes the language pattern. As story goes on, Gibson keeps bringing up the city and how Case wants to go back, like being homesick. The way Case keeps bringing up Sprawl as he lives on, it's as if foreshadowing that he'll soon visit the city pretty soon, which he does with Molly later on.

Through out the book, the reader can see a lot of Japanese words and phrases. Even the money currency is made with Japanese currency, "New Yen". This tells the readers that the place where Case is at has a lot of Japanese people and he is surrounded by many of them. It also tells the readers that there are some cultural interactions throughout the whole book. One can ask himself whether or not Case's country is governed by the people of Japan or just coexisting in the same world with them.

Gibson also wrote numerous contexts that are related to the future. One can be the repetition of matrix and cyberspace. This leads the readers that the people in the book are already living in a time where computers and Internet are part of their daily life. He also wrote about the "coffin", meaning the people in his book doesn't sleep on the bed with soft mattress that we are using right now. Everything that Case does is all related to either the matrix or something that doesn't even exist at the moment. It gives the readers the concrete image of how the world runs in Case's world.

These images are so futuristic yet not so far from us that one can make it as a model of the new world. As of now, the new generations are interacting with the Internet and technology so consecutively that it's not too difficult for the people of today, like me, to imagine this whole new world that Gibson has created.