Michael B. Morgan quoted Neuromancer by William Gibson
The first of William Gibson's 'Sprawl' trilogy, Neuromancer is the classic cyberpunk novel.
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He’d operated on an almost permanent adrenaline high, a byproduct of youth and proficiency, jacking into a custom cyberspace deck that projected his disembodied consciousness into the consensual hallucination that was the matrix.
— Neuromancer by William Gibson (Page 5 - 6)
In my opinion, this passage is a good indication of the emotional strain that we are all under today as a result of hyper-connectivity.