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February 25, 2020 01:04 am GMT

A new blog post series exploring the history and import of cyberpunk launches on Adafruit

This morning, I launched a new series of posts that I'm going to be writing on Adafruit on the history of cyberpunk science fiction and how it has evolved, how it has influenced culture and technology, what it got right (and wrong) about the near future in its fictional speculations.

In 1992, I wrote a post on The Well BBS entitled Is there a cyberpunk movement? The post was an attempt at summarizing what cyberpunk was, both as a literary genre, and how its depictions of near-future worlds were imploding onto the present of early 90s high-tech nerd culture (hackers, gamers, industrial/electronic music, tech artists, and cyberpunk zine publishers).

Apparently, the post struck a nerve as it quickly spread beyond the confines of The Well, was dubbed a cyberpunk manifesto, and ended up in the pages of Mondo 2000 magazine, Rudy Rucker and Mondo 2000s book The Users Guide to the New Edge, and as lyrics on Billy Idols 1993 record, Cyberpunk (but those are all stories to be told here later in the series).

The text of my post is a little dated, but heres the gist of what I was trying to encapsulate:

* In a cyberpunk world, global megacorporations are more powerful than governments.* Individual hackers and high-tech low lifes can wield disproportionate amounts of power within cyberspace and beyond.* The new stage for the human drama has shifted from the real world to a virtual one, one inside our networks and our minds. The new frontiers for human societytechnology, art, culture, and warfare have moved into cyberspace.

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