I am getting close to finishing Neuromancer, and I am adding it to my list of favorites under the sci-fi 
category. (Eww, science fiction. Gross.) No. It’s not gross. It’s very cool, this science fiction, and it’s one big reason your iPhone exists. Let me take it a step further and say that writing (and thinking) is a catalyst for turning the impossible into the real.
Here’s a passage from Wikipedia about author William Gibson: “In his afterword to the 2000 re-issue of Neuromancer, fellow author Jack Womack suggests that Gibson’s vision of cyberspace may have inspired the way in which the Internet (and the Web particularly) developed, following the publication of Neuromancer in 1984, asking “what if the act of writing it down, in fact, brought it about?”
Let’s take a closer look at Jack’s last sentence:
What if the act of writing it down, in fact, brought it about?
This is absolutely one of my favorite theories: that whatever we’ve conceived in our minds and put down in books and movies can actually exist in reality, is DESTINED to exist in reality.
I never got into Star Trek, but I loved Star Wars. If you don’t understand the difference, then I’ve lost you. If you’re still here, then you will agree with me when I say that both Star Trek and Star Wars had “warp speed”, or travel at the speed of light, allowing the spaceship to travel enormous distances in a relatively short period of time. Travel to the stars.
Impossible, today, I know. So not based in reality. So geeky. So science fiction! But however implausible light speed travel seems to all of us today, the fact that we have thought of it means that it’s destined to exist. Perhaps it exists already; we just need to unlock the door.
Just as we’ve done with fossil fuel powered autos. As we’ve done with flying machines. As we’ve done with handhelds that can give us any information we want with a signal and a click.
The nothing is impossible theory means that what we’ve thought can be real.
