Let's take a journey back to the 1980's and beyond, to discover the origins of the Cyberpunk movement, in literature, cinema, television, video games, comics and more. In this documentary miniseries, we will discover the wonders of Cyberpunk, dating back to the 1940's, all the way through 1989, with each successive episode taking on a new decade.
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THE EVOLUTION OF CYBERPUNK covers novels, comics, animation, television, film, games, philosophy, hacking, VR, simulation theory and The Matrix phenomenon. Learn about the second trilogy from cyberpunk author William Gibson: Virtual Light, Idoru and All Tomorrow's Parties, and discover the brilliant satire and criticism of modern America in Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash. Jack in to cyberspace with the origins of hacker culture, its impact on us during the advent of the internet, and how that informed our worldview of the information superhighway, and films such as The Net, Hackers and Johnny Mnemonic. What inspired us to invest so much into virtual reality, from the Virtual Boy, to injecting VR cameos into movies and shows like Serial Experiments Lain, Wild Palms, The Lawnmower Man, and others? And how did monumental video games such as System Shock, System Shock 2 and Bioforge influence us as players?
The long-awaited follow-up to The Origins of Cyberpunk, the 2nd episode in this #documentary series delves into the boom of #cyberpunk media during the 1990's, the unrest, crime and tech corps that inspired them, and what dark possibilities they revealed to us about our future.
Let's take a journey back to the 1980's and beyond, to discover the origins of the Cyberpunk movement, in literature, cinema, television, video games, comics and more. In this documentary miniseries, we will discover the wonders of Cyberpunk, dating back to the 1940's, all the way through 1989, with each successive episode taking on a new decade.
Let's take a journey back to the 1980's and beyond, to discover the origins of the Cyberpunk movement, in literature, cinema, television, video games, comics and more. In this documentary miniseries, we will discover the wonders of Cyberpunk, dating back to the 1940's, all the way through 1989, with each successive episode taking on a new decade.
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