Parola chiave Cyberspace

Dopo l'esplosione del laboratorio di ricerca sulla realtà virtuale, lo sperimentatore Giobbe viene ritrovato in fin di vita con il corpo orribilmente sfigurato e senza gambe. Per questo il dottor Cori Platt è incaricata di ricostruire quel corpo straziato. Con la realtà virtuale e i suoi prodigi, Cori ricostruisce anche la mente dell'infelice e questo è necessario a Jonathan Walker, che ambisce ad attivare un computer ultraintelligente (Chiron chip), concepito dal talento del dottor Benjamin Trace.

Da un racconto di William Gibson che l'ha anche sceneggiato. Nel 2021, un corriere elettronico che nel cervello ha un microchip zeppo di dati preziosi e segreti è braccato dai sicari di una potenza multinazionale farmaceutica. Si rifugia in una comunità di hackers ribelli. Quest'ultima parte è la più suggestiva di un film dove l'apparato figurativo schiaccia quello narrativo e l'azione violenta mortifica il disegno dei personaggi. L'occhio gode, l'intelligenza meno. Delusi i pochi fans di M. Gibson, ma un po' anche quelli, più numerosi, di K. Reeves.

Jobe Smith, un innocuo ritardato mentale, viene sottoposto a un trattamento farmacologico in laboratorio. L'obiettivo è dilatare e stimolare la sua intelligenza. La società di ricerca che lo sfrutta non ha però scopi pacifici; Jobe diventa anche la cavia di un esperimento che incrocia un incremento dell'aggressività con l'inserimento nella realtà virtuale.

Jimi, un programmatore di giochi per computer, scopre che il suo ultimo prodotto è stato infettato da un virus che ha dato una coscienza al protagonista principale del gioco, Solo. Tormentato dall'abbandono della sua ex-ragazza Lisa e supplicato da Solo a terminare la sua inutile "vita", Jimi inizia a cercare persone che potrebbero aiutarlo sia a scoprire cosa sia successo a Lisa e sia a cancellare il suo gioco prima che sia rilasciato.

.hack follows several young players as they navigate the vast, mysterious MMORPG known as “The World” – a place, it turns out, that is sometimes impossible to leave.

Lain—driven by the abrupt suicide of a classmate—logs on to the Wired and promptly loses herself in a twisted mass of hallucinations, memories, and interconnected-psyches.

Den-noh Coil, Coil — A Circle of Children, is a Japanese science fiction anime television series depicting a near future where semi-immersive augmented reality technology has just begun to enter the mainstream. The series takes place in the fictional city of Daikoku, a hotbed of AR development with an emerging city-wide virtual infrastructure. It follows a group of children as they use AR glasses to unravel the mysteries of the half real, half Internet city, using a variety of illegal software tools, techniques, and virtual pets to manipulate the digital landscape. Den-noh Coil, in development for over a decade, is the series director debut of Japanese animator Mitsuo Iso. It premiered on NHK Educational TV on May 12, 2007. Due to the animators involved in its production and its unusually high-profile television broadcast time slot, Den-noh Coil was highly anticipated.

In the year 2100, children have become Web divers and uploaded their consciousness onto global computer networks. They play in a cyber park called the Magical Gate. One day, a mysterious computer virus appears and begins to destroy the Magical Gate. Programs called Web Knights were created to protect the children from the virus but the virus turned all the Web Knights against the children. The only Web Knight to escape this is Gladion. Gladion seeks the help of Kento Yuki, a Web Diver who is in the fourth grade.

Three computer-savvy kids, Naoto, Yuka and Ippei created their own videogame superhero, but then discover it possessed by an inter-dimensional police officer, Gridman. Pursuing an evil program called Kahn Digifer, he merges with Naoto and fights Kahn Digifer's digitized monsters in order to prevent the computerized demon from wreaking havoc on the Human World.

Spicy City is an animated television series which was created by Ralph Bakshi for HBO. The series lasted for one season which consisted of six episodes.

A man uncovers a dangerous web of schemes and deceit when he accepts the presidency of a TV company.

Computer programmer Ken Gemberling – the titular "Fat Guy" – is accidentally sucked into his computer and learns he is destined to save cyberspace from a variety of evils.

.hack//Liminality is an OVA series directly related to the .hack video game series for the PlayStation 2, with the perspective of Liminality focused on the real world as opposed to the games' MMORPG The World. Liminality was separated into four volumes; each volume was released with its corresponding game. The initial episode is 45 minutes long, while subsequent episodes are 30 minutes long. The video series was directed by Koichi Mashimo, written by Kazunori Itō with music by Yuki Kajiura. Primary Animation production was handled by Mashimo's studio Bee Train which collaborated for the four games as well as handled major production on .hack//Sign.