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The Forerunner of Cyberpunk
William Burroughs and Cyberpunk
William S. Burruroughs produced a non-linear form of writing, using cut-up technique to produce fragmented stories that produced paranoiac view of life inside a large, dysfunctioning machine. -
Blade Runner screened as the first cyberpunk movie
Loosely based on literary work by Phillip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, it captures the quintessence of the cyberpunk aesthetic: a juxtaposition of high technology with social decay as a troubling allegory of the relationship between humanity and machines, in particular, artifically intelligent machines called replicants. -
Cyberspace was first used in Burning Chrone
Cyberspace was first used by William Gibson, a sci-fi novelist, to described as the mass consensual halluciation in computer networks. -
Neuromancer was published by William Gibson
First cyberpunk novel published, which describes about the Zeitgeist of anxiety and wonder that prevailed at the dawning of the present era of globalised economics, digital telecommunications, and exponential technological progress -
Today and the Future
Shibuya, Tokyo has become a hugh influence on the sci-fi genre. Decribed as the modern Japan simply as cyberpunk, which is often set in urbanised, artificial landscapes, and city lights receding.
