Cyberpunk

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A transhumanistic edge of society in dystopia. Daily life has been impacted by rapid technological takeover.

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This is more of a summary for a series of articles btw.

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Go too deep and we'll never want to leave the metaverse. The real universe will be dull by comparison.

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Historical cyberpunk has already met up with the present, and present day cyberpunk is becoming a shallow corporate reflection (oh the irony), too caught up in the aesthetic to see itself. A genre like cyberpunk which looks into the soon to come future has to keep evolving to not be a relic of the past.

Cyberpunk has a point - it's a criticism, and a warning. Let's not forget it.

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William Gibson published his classic novel Neuromancer almost 40 years ago, but it still feels fresh today. Science fiction author Matthew Kressel has been a fan of the book ever since reading it back in 1987.

“When I first read Neuromancer, everything I had read before that was golden and silver age [sci-fi]—Arthur C. Clarke, Larry Niven, Asimov, all that stuff,” Kressel says in Episode 477 of the Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy podcast. “So when I encountered Neuromancer, I was like, ‘What is this? This is completely different.'”

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ALPHA of our hacker/cyberpunk/privacy store, this is to help produce more hacker ethics activism, fight surveillance capitalism in Hispanic/Latin countries and create, sustain our current services and hacker shows, our book and more.. https://store.hispagatos.org note that most of the stuff are placeholders, only a few designs we made are for the occasion and new will come up this weekend related to hacker culture/cyberpunk/Privacy

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Numan is considered a pioneer of electronic music, with his signature sound consisting of heavy synthesiser hooks fed through guitar effects pedals. He is also known for his distinctive voice and androgynous "android" persona

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Unfortunately nobody pays attention to the cyberpunk theories to avoid what we are experiencing now a days, totalitarian states, brutal capitalism, class disparity, pandemics, wars, ecological dissasters. CYBERPUNK IS A PROTEST not a cool thing.

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