Beautiful Moments, Part TwoLast week I saw a helium balloon cross the road at the lights on a perfectly timed gust of wind. Today I saw four people trying to get into a GWiz electric car. They failed.
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chthonic, Thu 5 Aug 2010, 21:49)
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Interesting pointI think i was a little young in the 80's to get the whole cyberpunk thing. I have visions of me playing with my Star Wars figures at school. I guess the closest thing to Cyberpunk I came across (not that I would have known at the time) was the film Alien, would you say that H.R Giger was slightly cyberpunk?
(, Fri 6 Aug 2010, 16:10, 1 reply)
not really...Giger is more like the Heavy Metal/Sci Fi/Fantasy artwork 1970s. His work is more organic and fantastic than Cyberpunk, which is gritty, based in a mildly futuristic extension of the collapse of US heavy industry (the decaying factories of Detroit, etc), and the rise of high-tech gadgetry from Japan, etc.
Bladerunner is Cyberrpunk-y (albeit with some almost Steampunk technology in the computer terminals), but the best way to get a feel for Cyberpunk is to read the Sprawl trilogy (Neuromancer, Count Zero and Mona Lisa Overdrive). Think more dystopian corporate-led society with a touch of film noir and you're somewhere near the mark. As with Hacker culture, information is power, youth is arrogant and sometimes naive and there is usually an old-guard remnant of the old order trying to hold control....
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