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Blade Runner, produced by Ridley Scott
Blade Runner captues the essence of cyberpunk aesthetic: a juxtaposition of high technology with social decay as a troubling allegory of the relationship between. Having said that, it is loosely based on literary work by Phillip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, -
Term 'Cyberpunk' Emerged
The word 'Cyber' originated from cybernetics, and word 'punk' derived from Punk-Rock music. It was first used in Bruce Bethke's short story, 'Cyberpunk' -
Mirroshades was published
Bruce Sterling's publishment of 'Mirroshades' allowed for Cyberpunk to become a solid genre. -
Weal Stephenson's - Snowcrash
The release of 'Snowcrash' did wonders for Cyberpunk. It altered the genre in a positive way and attracted a larger SciFi audience as it did not follow the so called Cyberpunk cliche. -
Wachowski's - The Matrix
'The Matrix' allowed new types of genre followers and the recognition that it use to maintain in the 1980's.