Johnny Mnemonic by William Gibson Directed by Robert Longo 1995
Starring Keanau Reeves - Dolph Lundgren - Henry Rollins - and ICE-T.
(http://www.williamgibsonbooks.com)

Johnny Mnemonic is set in the world of 2021 where a Mnemonic Courier named Johnny played by Keanau Reeves carries data in a "wet-wired brain implant" in his head. It is registered as a dyslexia prosthesis to sneak him through customs as he moves data physically from Beijing to Newark New Jersey where most of the action takes place.

Johnny Mnemonic suffers from synaptic seepage of the data as he has overloaded and risks losing his mind. He is hunted by the Yakuza because the data he is carrying. He gradually discovers that the data is owned by a large corporation that they (the Yakuza) have an interest in.

On the world backdrop is Nerve Attenuation Syndrome which is caused by all of the electronics and implants that cause people to generally go haywire and crash. In 1995 when AIDS was being heavily marketed first as an Epidemic - It seemed closely related to the Epidemic of NAS - although vastly different in nature.

William Gibson is a cyberpunk science fiction writer who has written two trilogies and a recent novel called Pattern Recognition which is in development under director Peter Weir and is rumored to be in theaters by 2006.

2005 Mark's Johnny Mnemonic's 10th birthday.
(http://www.voidspace.org.uk/cyberpunk/pattern_recognition.shtml)