A person especially skilled at navigating cyberspace, specifically someone employed as a digital thief. Also known as a console cowboy.
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Jockey Term Timeline in Neuromancer
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Chapter 2
...can correct his neural damage, if Case will agree to work for him as a jockey. Case doesn’t believe him, but listens to the terms of their hypothetical contract anyway.
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