To me the term 'cyberpunk' sounds like an incredibly cool genre of music, but it covers more mediums than just music.
The concept of cyberpunk is about expressing (often dark) ideas about human nature, technology and their respective combination in the near probable future with regards to virtual reality, augmented reality, wearable computing, and related technologies.
Bruce Bethke coined the term 'cyberpunk', with the term first appearing in a short science fiction story of his with the same name in 1983. The word is said to derive from the words 'cybernetics' and 'punk'.
Cyberpunkreview.com lists the most common themes that occur in cyberpunk as:
- Negative impact of technology on humanity
- Fusion of man and machine
- Corporate control over society
- Uprising of the underground
- Ubiquitous access to information
We've all probably seen a piece of cyberpunk fiction without even realising that that is what it is. Some of the most well known examples being films The Matrix, Blade Runner and The Terminator and the novel Neuromancer (which looks as though it is being turned into a movie too... Surprise surprise).
Cyberpunk fiction is a hybrid genre which can use hard-boiled detection fiction, film noir, science fiction or literary post-modernism depending on what best suits the storyline.
It is typical for cyberpunk fiction to end with the world becoming a post-industrial dystopia.
0 comments:
Post a Comment