by Matthew Hunt, Head of Sales (Land Communications), Thales UK
Ask anyone for the first words that spring to mind at the mention of “cyberspace” and they will likely say some variety of: computers, networks, information and data. Whole virtual worlds, accessible in an instant.
Ask someone thirty, forty, fifty years ago and the likelihood is the general population will have never heard of the term – yet, “cyberspace” actually first appeared on the page in William Gibson’s 1984 novel Neuromancer – and it did so in terms as nebulous as they are hard to grasp:
“A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation…A graphic representation of data abstracted from the banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity. Lines of light ranged…
