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In article <[email protected]>, [email protected]
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>I'm pleased that these responses came out to fascinating and personal BUT
>this goes to show that y'all read interesting lives. Why are these
>Cyberpunk? What makes them cyberpunk? I, and many of my friends have been
>involved in near fatal road accidents, kicked out a landlord (very
>patiently, and without force; but its the best I could do), um... "done"
>computer animation and I bet there other people who do this sort of thing.
>But that isn't, in itself, cyberpunk, right? (I mean I'm asking: is it?)
You do have something right. Cyberpunks are very varied. I haven't
read one description yet that even remotely resembles mine. But the one
thing, through all of our differences, that Cyberpunks have in common is our
use of technology. If I had to give a bare-boned, stripped down, rusted
metal definition of CP, I would say that it is anyone who takes technology
and everything that they have learned in life, and puts it together applying
it to the real world.
For example, alot of CP literature (especially the Sprawl) consists
of humans who are part man/part machine. They started out as normal people
who then, using technology (in this case cybernetics) and used it in an
unthought of way by applying it to themselves. Using the knowledge they
gained, they came up with something useful.
It's just my two cents on CP anyways...
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