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Ridley Scott's Blade Runner is produced.
In a cyberpunk vision of the future, man has developed the technology to create replicants, human clones used to serve in the colonies outside Earth but with fixed lifespans. In Los Angeles, 2019, Deckard is a Blade Runner, a cop who specialises in terminating replicants.Ridley accurately emphasised the theme of cyberpunk which was still unknown to many in the 1980s. -
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5 key moments in the history of cyberpunk
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First use of the term 'cyberpunk'
The short story "Cyberpunk" by Bruce Bethke published in Amazing Science Fiction Stories; this is, allegedly, the first use of the term 'cyberpunk' anywhere. -
Burning Chrome published
Burning Chrome the the tale of two hackers who hack for profitable schemes, changed the Cyberpunk outlook and how it was perceived. -
Snow Crash is published
Neal Stephenson's release of 'Snowcrash' altered the genre 'Cyberpunk' positivey. The novel did not follow the newly familiar Cyberpunk cliche', thus attracting Sci-Fi audiences further -
The Matrix is released
The film describes a future in which reality perceived by humans is actually the Matrix, a simulated reality created by sentient machines in order to pacify and subdue the human population.
