![On Cyberpunk…
- Cyberpunk is a science fiction genre noted for its focus on “high tech and low life”.[1] The name is a portmanteau of cybernetics and punk and was originally coined by Bruce Bethke as the title of his short story “Cyberpunk”, published in 1983.[2] It features advanced science, such as information technology and cybernetics, coupled with a degree of breakdown or radical change in the social order.[3] Cyberpunk works are well situated within postmodern literature.[4]
[via Wikipedia]
- “Like punk music, the early cyberpunk movement seems to have been an everybody-welcome, no-experience-necessary brand of science fiction. It was the early 80s; technology was moving fast, and the objective of the movement was to try to move just a little faster. Cyberpunk’s early practitioners set out to paint a picture of life not as it was but as it was becoming: a glance into the next few years, when cutting-edge technology will be old-hat and when the social forces the writers saw around them will have effected a kind of cultural evolution.” - Cyberpunk: The Future is Now : Norbert Brown
[Full Essay @ Internet Review of Books]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kw3u73jULa1qa4qa7o1_500.png)
On Cyberpunk…
- Cyberpunk is a science fiction genre noted for its focus on “high tech and low life”.[1] The name is a portmanteau of cybernetics and punk and was originally coined by Bruce Bethke as the title of his short story “Cyberpunk”, published in 1983.[2] It features advanced science, such as information technology and cybernetics, coupled with a degree of breakdown or radical change in the social order.[3] Cyberpunk works are well situated within postmodern literature.[4]
[via Wikipedia]
- “Like punk music, the early cyberpunk movement seems to have been an everybody-welcome, no-experience-necessary brand of science fiction. It was the early 80s; technology was moving fast, and the objective of the movement was to try to move just a little faster. Cyberpunk’s early practitioners set out to paint a picture of life not as it was but as it was becoming: a glance into the next few years, when cutting-edge technology will be old-hat and when the social forces the writers saw around them will have effected a kind of cultural evolution.” - Cyberpunk: The Future is Now : Norbert Brown
[Full Essay @ Internet Review of Books]
