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the word 'punk'
The word 'punk' has always linked to someone in inferiority or someone who was not a 'good person'. In 1928, the word punk began getting associated with the image of 'criminal'.
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Cyberpunk film
Key events: Words like computer, robot, cyborg, and punk are created; Computers like The Difference Engine and ENIAC are built, while Pascal, Boole, Babbage, & Turing make contributions; Isaac Asimov creates the Three Laws of Robotics; Alexander Graham Bell invents the Telephone; AT&T rises to become a monopoly; Late 60s counterculture; 70s Punk; Kraftwerk forms and changes music. <a href='http://www.cyberpunkreview.com/movie/essays/the-four-eras-of-cyberpunk' >http://www.cyberpunkreview.com/mo -
Bladerunner
Blade Runner is a 1982 American dystopian science fiction film directed by Ridley Scott and starring Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young, and Edward James Olmos. The screenplay, written by Hampton Fancher and David Peoples, is a modified film adaptation of the 1968 novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick. -
William Gibson's first book of the 'Sprawl Trilogy' is published
The novels are all set in the same fictional future, and are subtly interlinked by shared characters and themes (which are not always readily apparent). The Sprawl trilogy shares this setting with Gibson's short stories "Johnny Mnemonic," "New Rose Hotel," and "Burning Chrome," and events and characters from the stories appear in or are mentioned at points in the trilogy. -
William Gibson writes about Japan as a contemporary cyberpunk setting in TIME magazine
William Gibson, arguably the 'founder' of the cyberpunk genre writes an article for TIME magazine in which he describes modern Japan, namely Shibuya, Tokyo as a contemporary setting for all that is cyberpunk.
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1956774,00.html