Neuromancer

A washed-up hacker in a grimy, corporation-run future gets one last chance to jack back into the global computer network, hired by a mysterious employer for a very dangerous job. The novel that defined cyberpunk and made "cyberspace" a household word (1984).

• Ep 2 — Did science fiction invent our future? (02:16–04:13, 19:12–19:49): Rob's favorite example of sci-fi naming the future: Gibson coins "cyberspace," but the main character still uses a payphone. "Where are the cell phones?" Caitlin says the book went deep on one idea without asking what else it would change, and later notes that "cyberspace" has outgrown the book itself.