William Gibson

William Ford Gibson is an American-Canadian speculative fiction writer and essayist widely credited with pioneering the science fiction subgenre known as cyberpunk. Beginning his writing career in the late 1970s, his early works were noir, near-future stories that explored the effects of technology, cybernetics, and computer networks on humans, a "combination of lowlife and high tech"—and helped to create an iconography for the information age before the ubiquity of the Internet in the 1990s. Gibson coined the term "cyberspace" for "widespread, interconnected digital technology" in his short story "Burning Chrome" (1982), and later popularized the concept in his acclaimed debut novel Neuromancer (1984). These early works of Gibson's have been credited with "renovating" science fiction literature in the 1980s.

17 March 1948

Born on the same birth date (17 March 1948): Alex MacDonald (footballer, born 1948)

Born on the same birth day (17 March): Andrew Brook • Brandon Aiyuk • Chaim Gross • Floyd B. Barnum • Gabriele Ferzetti • Hank Sauer • Jean-Baptiste Oudry • Jeremy Pargo • Ken Mattingly • Marcel Sabitzer • Nat King Cole • Patrice Contamine de Latour • Patrick Lebeau • Ralph Rose • Roger B. Taney

Born in the same month (March 1948): Alex MacDonald (footballer, born 1948) • Austin Carr • Chris Squire • David Schnitter • Dianne Wiest • Eric Fischl • Gary Doer • Jeff Kennett • Jim "Dandy" Mangrum • Jim McMillian • John de Lancie • Mel Galley • Michael Stanley • Milan Williams • Roy Barnes