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CYBERPUNKS: REBOOT YOUR BRAIN
Book: Spook Country by William Gibson
Postmodern Motifs and Ambience in Cyberpunk Films

The Singularity of AI in the Eyes of a Jester
The Mutated Child of Punk


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Chemical Illusions: Anthology of Cyberpunk Tales from Eastern Europe
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History of Cyberpunk


Intro

...The free human mind, creating the future, brings us to the new age - the Cyber Age. The inventing of the electricity and the telephone marks the beginning of the rise of the mankind. Broadcasting of sounds and images changed the human life forever...

With every new invention, the world - a child of the new age - was growing. Mankind saw millions of new opportunities. The Computer was the biggest invention of the human race ever made after the discovery of electricity. This invention of the seething intelligence became the most used one in daily life... This new invention opened a door to a new dimension - the cyberworlds also known as Virtual Reality. The computer-synthesized worlds were the brand new technology, taking more and more victims... After those events the world could never be the same again...

The new age was begot the first crime to the electronic world. The Cyber Age brought us more violence and more hatred in human's souls, more pain and more suffering... The crimes were moving to the new world, the world of 1's and 0's... New communities rose from the data world. Hackers, FreeJacks and Phreakers were the new rulers of this world. They brought the chaos into the new creation, but they also brought the knowledge to the mass, too. The Cyberpunks - offspring of the Cyber Age become the culture of the new world. The small community of free thinking people began to grow up and attract more and more people to the new cause - The Information is power! Free the Information!... The new world was called 'Cyberspace' by an member of the new society... The Cyberspace become a home for the Cyberpunks and the whole Cyber Underground. Hackers, Phreakers and other Cyberpunks began to rule the new world the way they like - No laws! No rules!

They began the new creation...

Creating a new dimension, creating the Cyberspace...

-- Mad Maniac 1996


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Cyber + Punk = Cyberpunk
Coining of the word 'cyberpunk'. Cyberpunk as a fusion of 'cyber' and 'punk'.

Cyberpunk Timeline
Year by year history of cyber, punk, and cyberpunk.

History of Cyberpunk Science Fiction
These papers on "Cyberpunk as a Science Fiction Genre" section tell about cyberpunk history, from pre-cyberpunk science fiction to '80s cyberpunk, and to cyberpunk nowadays.

Cyberpunk Subculture: Past and Present
These papers on "Cyberpunk as a Subculture" section recount the evolution and history of cyberpunk as a cultural theme. They place the cyberpunk culture in an historical context.

Is Cyberpunk Dead?
For the last years, it has been trendy to say that cyberpunk is dead. How about this?






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Cyberpunk as a Subculture


"Cyberpunk escaped from being a literary genre intocultural reality. People started calling themselves cyberpunks, or the media started calling people cyberpunks. The first people to identify themselves as cyberpunks were adolescent computer hackers who related to the street-hardened characters and the worlds created in the books of William Gibson, Bruce Sterling,John Shirley, and others. Cyberpunk hit the front page of the New York Times when some young computer kids were arrested for cracking a government computer file. The Times called kids "cyberpunks". Finally, cyberpunk has come to be seen as a generic name for a much larger trend more or less describing anyone who relates to the cyberpunk vision. This, in turn, has created a purist reaction among the hard-core cyberpunks, who feel they got there first."

-- R.U.Sirius, Mondo 2000: A Users Guide to the New Edge


The word 'cyberpunk' was originally a marketing term applied to Science Fiction writings of William Gibson and Douglas Rushkoff, but was soon taken up by many Internet users as a description of a lifestyle, culture or community to which they imagine they belong. So cyberpunk became the way of thinking and attitude for many people in the Net and in so called Real Life.

This is due to the fact that they correctly noticed the seeds of the fictional world of cyberpunk in Western society today. Our world is evolving into a typical 'cyberpunk-world': the rising amount of technology in our everyday lives - we thrive and survive on technology, the developement of the cities into huge 'sprawls', drugs and crime. All these aspects of our culture fit nicely into the world of cyberpunk - the future now.

So, the world from the works of Gibson and "Blade Runner" is becoming a stark reality.


The Cyberpunk People

Some groups associate themselves with cyberpunk literature/scifi and call themselves cyberpunks, or, are associated with cyberpunk and called cyberpunks. The main classifications of cyberpunks are hackers, crackers, phreaks, cypherpunks, netrunners, otakus, ravers, transhumans, and extropians.


Cyberpunk Subculture: Past and Present

These papers recount the evolution and history of cyberpunk as a cultural theme. They place the cyberpunk culture in an historical context.


Cyberculture

Cyberculture, Technoculture, Future Culture... Cyberpunk Digital Culture Links.


Cyberpunk Style

Discussion about cyberpunk style issues. Cyberpunk attitude, fashion, language, music, drugs, love, religion, etc.


Cyberpunk Future

Future we will get when cyberpunk world becomes more and more reality.


Cyberpunk Technology

Cyberpunk is nothing without the technology.


Cyberpunk and Cyberculture Zones & Zines

Communities, web-sites and e-zines by cyberpunk people.

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