A glaring example is Neuromancer, where the protagonist is always running around looking for a landline to connect to cyberspace. You would think that by the 80

A glaring example is Neuromancer, where the protagonist is always running around looking for a landline to connect to cyberspace. You would think that by the 80s it would have been easier to imagine wireless communication, but Gibson is famously non-technical, so I guess it's not that surprising.