News Summary

• The story of the Puppet Master was ahead of its time.
• The World Wide Web was invented in 1989, the same year that the first volume of “Ghost in the Shell’s” manga hit newsstands in Japan.
• The Puppet Master as a government hacker, the breaching of networks to track targets or use them to then attack other networks are not the only fascinating bits of speculative fiction related to hacking in the anime.
• In 1989 and 1995, cybersecurity wasn’t even a word.