If you read Burning Chrome, you can see all the Gibsonian cyberspace elements where already there in something that was FINISHED IN 1981.
Lisberger, Tron’s creator, was shopping around the idea for the movie as early as '78.
But sure, these ideas weren’t strictly concurrent. They both came out of real life computer and Internet development inspiring the themes within the media.
Point being, Tron popularized an idea that catapulted similar media.
You have it the wrong way around if anything.
If you read Burning Chrome, you can see all the Gibsonian cyberspace elements where already there in something that was FINISHED IN 1981.
The first outline of Neuromancer, titled “Jacked In” is from the same year.
Gibson had no idea about what he was talking about and that’s why his work is not derivative in any way of other sci-fi work on the subject.
Lisberger, Tron’s creator, was shopping around the idea for the movie as early as '78.
But sure, these ideas weren’t strictly concurrent. They both came out of real life computer and Internet development inspiring the themes within the media.
Point being, Tron popularized an idea that catapulted similar media.