Comparing the Theme of Technology Versus Nature in Frankenstein and Neu

engine room Versus Nature in Shelleys Frankenstein and Gibsons Neuromancer At first glance, a comparison of Shelleys Frankenstein and Gibsons Neuromancer could attend rather irrelevant having in mind that these two works ar separated by much than a century. During this lapse of time, humanity has witnessed primal changes at a breath-taking speed. The partly Gothic and partly Romantic cosmos of bloody shame Shelley is quite different from the reality Gibson predicts. We could not say, however, that there be no links between the two. Shelleys work could be viewed as the taking into custody of the new-born fear in regard to technical invention and Gibsons work as the divination of the consequences of technological development and sophistication. In both cases the essence of human nature has b arly changed. It is what lies behind the destructive human strife for more, more at any price that has led to the despondent conclusions of both works. inherent to understanding the c omplexity of the problem of technology, in both Mary Shelleys Frankenstein and William Gibsons Neuromancer, is the historical context in which the two were written. Whereas Frankenstein was written in a finish of dramatic change - that of the Industrial revolution, in Neuromancer, Gibson echoes the opinion of economists who believe that we are currently experiencing the beginning of a profound economic revolution, due to the breakthroughs in information and communication technology, and which most believe is equal in order of magnitude to the industrial revolution. The second leitmotif of my research is that of nature in acknowledgment to technology. Here I describe the relation of Mary Shelleys Frankenstein to technology and some of the crucial issues co... ... Stephen. York Notes on Mary Shelleys Frankenstein. Longman York Press, 1992. Bloom, Harold and Golding, William. Modern Critical Views on Mary Shelley. Edited with an introduction by Harold Bloom. Chelsea House Publish ers, New York, 1985. Forester, Tom. The Information Technology Revolution. Edited and introduced by Tom Forester. The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1985. Borgmann, Albert. Technology and the Character of Contemporary Life. A Philosophical Inquiry. The University of Chicago Press, 1984. Leebaert, Derek. Technology 2001. The Future of Computing and Communications. Edited by Derek Leebaert. The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Third printing, 1991. Michie, Donald and Johnston, Rory. The Knowledge Machine. Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Man. William Morrow and Company, Inc., NY., 1985.