5 Key Moments in Cyberpunk History

By michaelapetrofes

  • 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.