Vinge is probably my favorite SciFi author. His "True Names" is everything you need to know about "cyberspace", written in 1981 but still seems modern today:

Vinge is probably my favorite SciFi author. His "True Names" is everything you need to know about "cyberspace", written in 1981 but still seems modern today: > True Names is a 1981 science fiction novella by American writer Vernor Vinge, a seminal work of the cyberpunk genre. It is one of the earliest stories to present a fully fleshed-out concept of cyberspace, which would later be central to cyberpunk. The story also contains elements of transhumanism, anarchism, and even hints about The Singularity. > True Names first brought Vinge to prominence as a science fiction writer. It also inspired many real-life hackers and computer scientists; a 2001 book about the novella, True Names: And the Opening of the Cyberspace Frontier, included essays by Danny Hillis, Marvin Minsky, Mark Pesce, Richard Stallman and others.[1] It was awarded the Prometheus Hall of Fame Award in 2007. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/True_Names https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/True_Names