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Cyberpunk, a rebel no more?

Cyberpunk, a rebel no more?

Perhaps the new cyberpunk is losing the ability to create scenarios. Is it becoming just consumer fiction made to amaze the reader and that's all?

Cyberpunk-warrior-looking_city By freepik

The 'real' space of the Cyberpunk: A reflection

It's impossible to move, to live, to operate at any level without leaving traces, bits, seemingly meaningless fragments of personal information.― William Gibson

Gibsonian Cyberpunk and the Equitable Future

Gibsonian Cyberpunk and the Equitable Future

"The future is already here. It's just not quite evenly distributed yet" is a famous phrase by the American writer William Gibson that has been taken up by doctors, scientists and communicators. A simple, immediate, visionary and in some ways disturbing sentence.

Cyberpunk: On social and cultural meaning of a literary movement

Cyberpunk: On social and cultural meaning of a literary movement

The fictional genre known as cyberpunk has deep political and cultural roots, with great authors such as William Gibson and Neal Stephenson shaping its development and success. 'Cyberpunk is a comet that has passed through the skies of speculative fiction and exploded in its heyday. We will long sail

Are Cyberpunk and Science Fiction dead?

Are Cyberpunk and Science Fiction dead?

In Science Fiction the plot is fairly linear, with characters defined and more or less recognizable in patterns. In Cyberpunk, linearity is broken, protagonist-situation relationships are complex and ambiguous.

Gibson's Johnny Mnemonic

Gibson's Johnny Mnemonic: On human empowerment and control

Johnny Mnemonic is a hymn and a warning to human empowerment and control through dermal chips and the control of biological neural networks.