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History of Cyberpunk

By jp2012

  • Blade Runner Is Released As The "Definitive Cyberpunk Film"

    • Directed by Ridley Scott
    • Gave cyberpunk science fiction its visual representation
    • Based on Philip K. Dick's book "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep" -------The Cyberpunk Project, 2004
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    History of Cyberpunk

  • The Phrase "Cyberpunk" Is Created

    • First appeared as the title of a short story "Cyberpunk" by Bruce Bethke
    • Applied to the "bizarre, hard-edged, high-tech" SF emerging in the eighties ------The Cyberpunk Project, 2004

  • Cyberpunk's Sub-Cultures Emerge

    • Computer hacking, neural networks, virtual reality, robots and articulate descriptions of the human mind and 'self' as a kind of computer are now commonplace within cyber punk sub cultures ---------Edwards, 1995

  • Cyberpunk Features On Cover Of TIME Magazine

    Byline Of: "Vitural sex, smart drugs and synthetic rock 'n' roll! A futuristic subculture erupts from the electronic underground"
    -----Time, 1993

  • Current & Future Cyberpunk Projects & Emergence

    Films
    - Matrix, Avatar, Total Recall, Tron: Legacy
    Books
    - Alif The Unseen, Amped, Robopocalypse
    Places
    - Shibuya, Tokyo
    - The Sony Centre, Berlin
    --------Chaplin, 2007