His relationship with the concept of cyberspace is proving difficult in his latest novel All Tomorrow's Parties. The characters can't use the word 'cyberspace'. I can't allow them to use a word that was invented in another William Gibson fiction. It is a violation of some internal consistency. When I first wrote about it, it wasn't there.
Many people now have access to cyberspace.
Gibson is almost embarrassed that a term which he coined has become a cultural watchword and he a cultural icon. I described it prior to its more public arrival. I could see it was already there. The things I've done, which people mistake for prescience, are simply a matter of record. It's like trainspotting.