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.
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.