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Quoted at the beginning of the podcast to introduce Silicon Valley's culture. Mark Andreessen later recommends the book, noting it was reissued by Stripe Press and that he's known the author for a long time.

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Tom Holland mentions being shown a copy of this 1984 science fiction novel at Oxford in 1989, which described 'cyberspace.' Mark Andreessen also recommends people read it, noting it was influential on him and that Gibson famously wrote it on a typewriter without having used a computer.