Case is doing his best to get by in a future dominated by technology. A global alternate reality exists called the matrix. Much like real world internet it is a center for information, commerce and corruption. Case was once a computer cowboy but got cut off from cyberspace by toxins he was exposed to and as a result he headed down a path of self destruction. Case is then offered a job opportunity which includes a cure, a permanent one should he comply thus allowing him to once more access the matrix. He is then involved in cyberspace break-ins that carry him around the globe and into space where he finally discovers that he is being manipulated by an AI rooted in the very medium of the matrix in which he operates.
             Neuromancer is the landmark of cyberpunk, a genre typified by environmental degeneration, highly advanced and often self-destructive technology and capitalist worlds dominated by corporate super powers. The central character of the text, Case, lives in a crime ridden black market sector of a city in Japan called Chiba. Many aspects of Neuromancer would appear to make it the antithesis of the utopian concept, more specifically Utopia as Thomas More created it.
             The extreme capitalist world of Neuromancer exists largely as a reaction to the political climate that existed when Ronald Reagan was the president of America. This period saw corporations undergoing large expansions where greed was rampant and personal gain was the number one priority. Neuromancer shows the end result of capitalism gone wrong where large companies are the dominant world super powers. Other notable powers in the text are large underground organizations such as the Japanese mafia, the Yakuza, who deal behind fronts in black market trades and family clans that function somewhat like corporations but where the executive positions are held through genetic inheritance. This stands in huge contrast to More's Utopia where a relatively communist ...