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Wintermute's Team In Neuromancer, By William Gibson

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Neuromancer by William Gibson is a novel about a team who goes on a mission to accomplish a goal set out by Wintermute; an artificial intelligence (AI) built by the Tessier-Ashpool company. It does not have a personality, therefore it must imitate the form, speech patterns and behaviors of other characters in the novel to communicate information. Wintermute’s goal throughout the novel is to penetrate into Neuromancer’s terminal and merge with the AI to become one powerful system. In order to achieve its goal, he put together Armitage’s team. Armitage, also known as Colonel Willis Corto, is a personality created by Wintermute to take care of its dealings. Armitage’s team includes Henry Case, Molly Millions, Peter Riviera, The Finn and Maelcum …show more content…

Case is one of the top three characters who is essential in completing the mission because his hacking skills are incredible. He is known as one of the best cowboys in the Sprawl. Additionally, “He’d been trained by the best, McCoy Pauly and Bobby Quine, legends in the biz” (5). Without Case, Wintermute’s goal would have mot been achieved since it is Cases hacking skills that successfully got the team passed the obstacles. For example, without Case the team would have not been able to hack into Sense/Net to steal a computerized personality recording of the Dixie Flatline. In addition, it is Case who can hack into Tessier-Ashpool system to access Straylight, and the defense system to enter a password so Wintermute can merge with Neuromancer. Without case the team would have had a tough time getting passed these obstacles, and they probably would have not gotten passed them in the time period Case did. Overall, Cases hacking skills is the reason he is one of the top three-character essential in completing the mission for

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