In the book Mr Gibson describes cyberspace as " a consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators" and " a graphic representation of data abstracted from the banks of every computer in the human system."

吉布森先生在书中将网络空间描述为“数十亿合法操作员每天都经历的一种双方同意的幻觉”和“从人类系统中每台计算机的银行中提取的数据的图形表示”。