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Isaac Asimov's "Robot" stories are published during the 40s and 50s. Pivato notes that he discusses the implications and rights of artificial intelligences. Artificial intelligence later diverged from cyberpunk ideas.
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This was the first commercial computer. People became really, really scared about technology after this.
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Philip K. Dick, like Asimov before him, wrote on the idea of robotic intelligence and how androids would interact with humans. Pivato notes that Blade Runner was a very loose adaption of this book.
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According to Pivato, cyberpunk has been around since at least 1968 with Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep. However, with the abundance of cyberpunk material (probably brought about by commercial computers) it's hard to ignore the 80s as pivotal to the development of the genre.
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I think Blade Runner probably introduced the idea of cyberpunk to a more mainstream audience as people are more likely to watch a film than read a book. Pivato stresses that the film is only loosely based on Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep
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Along with The Glass Hammer, K. W. Jeter demonstrates the darker themes of cyberpunk.
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William Gibson writes Neuromancer, widely considered to be the first work to use the phrase 'cyberpunk'. Pivato believes that the genre was "alive well before Neuromancer" however. Its themes of anxiety towards the progress brought about in the 80s are also noted to be laughable in "A Very Short History of Cyberpunk"
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Along with Dr. Adder, K. W. Jeter demonstrates the darker themes of cyberpunk
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A cyberpunk film preceeding the "Netsploitation" films of the 90s