Virtual Philosphy & Cyber Punk

Open your eyes to the imperialist and anti-environmental practices of multinational corporations!!!

Cyberpunk is a science fiction genre based in the possibilities inherent in computers, genetics, body modifications and corporate developments in the near future.

Cybernetics comes from the Greek kybernetes which means steersman or pilot and the concept developed during and after WWII to indicate the use of a systematic approach to complex issues such as managing a large number of computers at distributed sites or understanding the operationms of the brain.

William Gibson is a US/Canadian writer whose fictional work has spawned a number of key concepts like 'cyberspace' and 'virtual reality'. His work sits uncomfortably in the sci-fi genre because its gritty realism about the near future makes it too close to the truth

Matrix -This movie pushes the limits of cyberpunk

Generalized Basic Philosphy - Another Reality exists!

CYBERPUNK THEMES -

1. Technology and Mythology

2. Utopia and Dystopia

3. Cities as Machines

4. Technological change

5. Modernism and Post modernism

My Conclusion:

CYBERPUNK is political and awakens us to the shift from the modern world to the postmodern experience of something far more difficult and diffuse than 'the world'.