Just use the below 2 links as a reality check between cyberpunk scenarios and nowadays technology...

http://edition.cnn.com/video/#/video/tech/2010/11/10/nr.robot.helps.woman.walk.cnn

http://edition.cnn.com/video/#/video/health/2010/11/03/ctw.foster.bionic.eye.cnn

Kanontas ena perasma apo to www.cyberpunkreview.com ( kapoia stigmh pepei na to valw sta links auto to e3airetiko site) vrhka to parapanw video ka8ws kai mia mia anafora pros ton kallitexnh kai to sugkekrimeno album. Den eixa idea gia ton Warren Zevon, alla to kommati parapanw opws kai olo to album Transverse City einai ena album pou 8a mporouse eukola -kai proswpikh mou apopsh einai pws se megalo va8mo ta katafernei- na  anoikei ston cyberpunk xwro, an kai oi taseis sunh8ws aporiptoun ton pio rock hxo kai teinoun se pio hlektronikous peiramatismous h kai e3oloklhrou hlektroniko hxo.

would be?

"If you would have a thought controlled, wearable computer that you can fully customize, would that computer be an integral part of your consciousness?"

Ghost in the Shell (1995)





Serial Experiment Lain





To prwto video einai to trailer ths tainias Ghost in the Shell tou 1995. Tainia sta8mos sth dekaetia tou '90 pou pernaei me safestato tropo thn cyberpunk ais8htikh. Etaireies opou exoun ane3elegkth dunamh sta xeria tous, krath ermaia, kosmos pou epiviwnei anti na zei, ta androids, cyborgs na apoteloun kommati ths ka8hmerinothtas, Artificial Inteligences na 8etoun filosofika erwthmata peri ths zwhs kai tou ti einai an8rwpos. Ki ola auta mesa apo ena senario toso kalodemeno kai dunamiko pou dikaiws anedei3e to ergo auto ws mia apo ths kaluteres dhmiourgies tou eidous ( prwta ws cyberpunk ergo, metepeita ws anime ) alla kai genikotera.

To deutero video einai to opening ths seiras Serial experiment Lain. Seira tou '98 opou ena koritsaki 14 xronwn anakaluptei th sxesh ths me tous upologistes kai to diktuo ( sth seira onomazetai wired, apotelei e3eli3h tou twrinou internet) kai anakaluptei poia pragmatika einai h sxesh ths me auto. Sthn poreia gnwrizei katastaseis kai xarakthres pou 8a ephreasoun th zwh ths kai 8a alla3oun olotela ton tropo pou evlepe kai katanoouse th zwh ths, ton eauto ths, tous gurw ths. H emmonh me thn ennoia ths epikoinwnias (thn pio afairetikh ths ennoia, oxi aparaithta lektikh , diaproswpikh, ktl. Thn ennoia ths epikoinwnias toso anoixta oso na mporoume na sumperilamvanoume akoma kai thn ennoia epikoinwnias 2 upologistwn h diktuwn meta3u tous) ginetai 3eka8arh mesa apo tous pampollous sumvolismous ths omadas pou dhmiourghse th seira kai eniote mpleketai entona me th psuxedelikh domh pou akolou8eitai gia thn anaptu3h tou senariou, pragma pou ginetai safes apo to prwto kiolas epeisodio. 13 molis epeisodia kai einai arketa na apodwsoun ena akrws psyxedeliko kai  monadiko cyberpunk perivallon.

plugged in...

to blog exei ws skopo tou  na apotelesei mia mikrh phgh gia to ti esti cyberpunk.O kairos 8a dei3ei ean kai kata poso mporoume na to epituxoume auto :)


polu apla kai polu genika 8a mporousame na poume pws :

Cyberpunk is about expressing (often dark) ideas about human nature, technology and their respective combination in the near future.





elpizw na einai kalh h arxh mas...(einai ! ...by deafault :P )