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Cyberpunk
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What is Cyberpunk?
Cyberpunk is a science-fiction sub-genre dealing with the integration of society and technology in dystopian settings. Often referred to as “low-life and high tech,” Cyberpunk stories deal with outsiders (punks) who fight against the oppressors in society (usually mega corporations that control everything) via technological means (cyber). If the punks aren’t actively fighting against a megacorp, they’re still dealing with living in a world completely dependent on high technology.
Cyberpunk characteristics include:
- Dystopian city setting where mega-corporations rule
- Full integration of technology into society, featuring cybernetic implants
- Outsider protagonists (punks) who often are very familiar with the technology around them
- Hard boiled detective and film noir vibes and influence
- Themes dabbling in trans-humanism, existentialism, and what it means to be human.
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The world is turning into the cyberpunk universe. Just with multitudes more corpo fascist shit and very little of the technology.
And geopolitically it's headed that way. How many of the following traits do you think will come true ?
In cyberpunk..
North America is a wasteland. 60 percent of the population dies of famine. There's a civil war in America. And private entities carved out their own fiefdoms where everyone except the executive class lives like cattle
Eastern Europe and most of Asia minor is a never ending warzone
Western Europe and east Asia become the world's financial and economic centers. Except they too live with their own disasters
Entire countries are wiped off the map either from war or climate disaster