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From: edgarhentai@gmail.com
On Sat, 11 Sep 2004 00:52:49 +0100, "goobs"
wrote:
>
>> Maybe but alt.cypherpunk is long dead ! :S
>>
>> And I also think that that FAQ looks a lot more like an homage to what
>> CP was a long time ago ....
>>
>>
>> --
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>> EDgAr Hentai
>> DPTLC.biz
>
>cyberpunk isn't dead, i tell you! it's just unrecognisable thanks to
>hollywood shite mainstream. it's pop fiction now. as the years go by i
>find myself no longer the weirdo outcast who thinks oddly, but just another
>one of the mob. i talk about creds and chips with my work mates as they
>slide their visa through a handheld machine and pay for the groceries
>without any human contact and they shrug. you can't even talk about nannite
>technology without being asked what the name of the film was(???).
>
>goobs
Cyberpunk is a genre. The genre was very big in the 1980 and 1990 ...
it actually was a big frenzy then !
Now this usenet group was also very crowded a long time ago and now it
is virtually empty.
CP was put down by reality. Yes you do use some of the technology that
was described in some CP novel but that doesn't mean that we live in a
CP world.
I mean look at the number of people trying to imitate Elvis !? Is
Elvis coming back ? are we living in an Elvis world ? No (Thank god !)
:)
You can like CP has much has you want it just won't make it come back
! Even the precious Gibson doesn't write CP anymore !
There is a couple of author that write CP some bad, some good, some
awful crap .... but there is also some writer writing play in the
Shakespeare style but it doesn't make them avant-gardist at all, mere
copy cat .
Of course there is some very good Post-CP writers but they kind of
moved on to something else and I don't think that it should entirely
be refereed to has CP.
My 2 cents anyway ...
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EDgAr Hentai
DPTLC.biz
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