#cyberpunk (7 links)
Gibson imagined cyberspace as a space of corporate dominance from the start; Silicon Valley built the open internet first, then converged on his dystopia anyway. The difference is that, in Neuromancer, that convergence was the disaster to be resisted. They turned his warning into a product roadmap.
- How Neuromancer formed the Cyberpunk Aesthetics | Hacker News news.ycombinator.com
- Dreampunk - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org
Dreampunk is a microgenre of electronic music characterized by its focus on cinematic ambience and field recordings, combined with various traits and techniques from electronic genres such as techno, jungle, electro, and dubstep.
- Cyberpunk came true. So what's next? noahpinion.substack.com
- The Penguin Blog: In Cyberspace everyone can hear you scream thepenguinblog.typepad.com
When we first started dabbling in Second Life we quickly realized that something interesting Penguin could do would be to bring William Gibson into this strange new place, a place he seemed to have predicted and described years ago...
By William Gibson (Sept 2001)