Редактирование: Johnny Mnemonic (раздел)

=== Introduction Sequence ===

The world in which the movie is set is laid out in the opening sequence of the movie. It states:

<blockquote>In the second decade of the 21st century.

Corporations rule.

The world is threatened by a new plague: NAS

Nerve Attenuation Syndrome

Fatal, Epidemic, It's cause and cure unknown.

The corporations are opposed by the LoTeks.

A resistance movement risen from the streets:

Hackers, Data-pirates, Guerilla-fighters in the info-wars.

The corporations defend themselves.

They hire the Yakuza. The most powerful of all crime syndicates. 

They sheath their data in black-ice, lethal viruses waiting to burn the brains of intruders.

But the LoTeks wait in their strongholds. In the old city cores, Like rats in the walls of the world.

The most valuable information must sometimes be entrusted to mnemonic couriers, Elite couriers who smuggle data in wet wired brain implants.</blockquote>