A Thai visitor appears to be frightened by a life-size Velociraptor model also known as Raptor at the Dinosaur Planet theme park in Bangkok, Thailand, 25 March 2016. The 500 million baht (14 million US dollars or 12 million euro) theme park opening in the Thai capital aimed to attract more than 15,000 visitors a day featuring a chance to experience more than 200 dinosaurs from various species that are brought back to life. (Photo by Rungroj Yongrit/EPA)

New York Sports Club Gets In The Election Spirit With Hillary Clinton And Donald Trump Boxing Inspired Class on October 27, 2016 in New York City. (Photo by Thos Robinson/Getty Images for DKC for New York Sports Clubs)

Tomomi Ota pushes a trolley loaded with her humanoid robot Pepper as she crosses a street in Omotesando shopping district in Tokyo, Japan, 24 March 2016. Telecommunications and mobile phone carrier SoftBank Corp. opened a robot-staffed store where 10 Pepper humanoid robots welcome customers looking to buy a mobile phone. The store will be opened until 30 March 2016. (Photo by Franck Robichon/EPA)

Women carry pitchers after filling them with water from a hand pump to their houses in Thane district in the western state of Maharashtra, India, May 30, 2019. (Photo by Francis Mascarenhas/Reuters)

Jiff with Playboy Playmates arrives at the Playboy Super Bowl XLIX Party on Friday, January 30, 2015 in Scottsdale, Ariz. (Photo by Omar Vega/Invision/AP Photo)

England supporters in the Flat Iron Square pub in London react to events in Kaliningrad, where England and Belgium play to decide the winner of Group G in the Russia 2018 World Cup on June 28, 2018. (Photo by Daniel Leal-Olivas/AFP Photo)

A journalist operate a harness with multiple recording devices capable of recording and live streaming outside the Great Hall of the People where the opening session of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) was held in Beijing, China, Friday, March 3, 2017. Thousands of delegates have gathered at the Chinese capital for the opening of the annual session of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, which advises the rubberstamp parliament, whose annual session begins Sunday. (Photo by Ng Han Guan/AP Photo)

William Gibson is not one of the authors that spits out novels like a machine – in his long and fruitful career he has only published 11 novels andof short stories and articles in the tens each. Still his impact on modern literature was huge – the “noir prophet” of the cyberpunk subgenre (that he was one of the pioneers of) has predicted the rise of reality television, virtual reality, video games and the internet. He is a Hugo and Nebula award winning science fiction writer, with a special eye for what the future might bring.