His work has influenced the writings of postmodernists such as Baudrillard .
Needs are the fruit of production.
Producers design and build a product first, then think up a reason for consumers to need it. Instead, it's a form of symptomatic technology . In Gibson's cyberspace, different rules apply from normal life. Stone refers to the way in which the term and concept he coined set the tone for the vastly expanded discussion of cyberspace that followed the publication of his book in 1984. Gibson is regarded by many as a visionary in terms of predicting the social and cultural roles we can expect to play in the cyberspace-dominated realm of the future.