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Our digital experiences are out of body. This biases us toward depersonalised behaviour in an environment where one’s identity can be a…
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It's also hard for people to contend with the difficult possibility that we are simply overadvanced fungi and bacteria hurtling through a…
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Corporations [gained] direct access to what we may think of as our humanity, emotions, and agency but, in this context, are really…
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Our society has reoriented itself to the present moment. Everything is live, real time, and always-on. It’s not a mere speeding up,…
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The plague did not lead to Europe’s economic collapse. Rather, Europe’s currency-driven economic collapse led to the plague.
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Our enthusiasm for digital technology about which we have little understanding and over which we have little control leads us not toward…
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Digiphrenia”—the way our media and technologies encourage us to be in more than one place at the same time.
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The outsourcing of our memory to machines expands the amount of data to which we have access, but degrades our brain’s own…
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If we stop believing in a future, if we stop doing things for something else but start doing them for now, some…
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It may be decades until we know what living in a state of constant distraction will do to us,
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More than anything, rave was an intentionally designed experience. The music, lighting, and ambience were all fine-tuned to elicit and augment altered…
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Ecstacy stripped away the user's inhibitions to self-expression. On E, lies are inefficient, and the peculiarities or weaknesses they are meant to…
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For me as a kid, reading cyberpunk was like seeing the world for the first time. Gibson's Neuromancer wasn't just stylistically stunning;…
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For me, the best thing about Cyberpunk is that it taught me how to enjoy shopping malls, which used to terrify me.…
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A snappy label and a manifesto would have been two of the very last things on my own career want list. That…
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In movies and in television the robots are always evil. I guess I am not into the whole brooding cyberpunk dystopia thing.
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The early cyberpunk idea was that networked computers would let us do our work at home, as freelancers, and then transact directly…
— Douglas Rushkoff
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I took Punk to be the detonation of some slow-fused projectile buried deep in society's flank a decade earlier, and I took…
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It was not until the appearance of cyberpunk in the 1980s that SF began to grapple in a broadly meaningful way with…
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Every new generation of SF writers remakes cyberpunk - a genre often laced with dystopian subtexts - in its own image.
— Paul Di Filippo
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There is a great deal of cyberpunk that I admire, especially the work of William Gibson which I think is excellent. Somehow…
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Let me tell you a little story about a guy called Johnny. He's got the 2.25 kids, the washer, dryer, he's livin'…
— Tiga
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