One of these tales was ‘Johnny Mnemonic’, an action-heavy yarn about a data courier wanted by the Yakuza for holding their stolen data in his head. In 1995 Robert Longo released the big-screen ...

In 1981, a then-unknown William Gibson, raised on writers like Bradbury, published a hot little neon-noir in Omni called “Johnny Mnemonic ... if the gig comes with memory lacunae and the ...