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Cyberpunk Beginnings
| I think it was schience and technology that were evolving back in the 50s~60s. But of course it's sci-fi that brought about questions of artificiality, individuality, corporationism and so on.
| Philip k dick
William Gibson
| >>271133
This. It's actually explained at modern literature history classes. And written on wikipedia.
| >>271195 I have to respond with my tail between my legs in that I have only read the tiniest amount of pkd and Gibson. Other than androids and the sprawl trilogy what else can you recommend???
| Cyberpunk awared us of the consequences of a big amount of technology dependence in our society. Still, we made the exact same mistakes.
| >>272108 It is unavoidable. Once technology is available, noone will give it up willingly. Maybe they will pick and choose the directions of where and how to use it, but not really give it up. And this time, unlike before in human history, the tech is involving information and its exchange.
Am not including the amish here. They are of a different mindset altogether in their refusal of technology at large.
| >>271304 do androids is probably the most orthodox cyberpunk-ish pkd, but a lot of his works crosses with cyberpunk themes. The guy's influential af after all.
For Gibson there's the Bridge series, from which I only read Idoru, which was fine.
Also Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash is a must almost as much as Neuromancer.
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| What do you think was the beginning of the cyberpunk, that we today like and some love?