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Cyberpunk Manifesto
by Gareth Branwyn
Gareth Branwyn posted the following description of the
CYBERPUNK WORLDVIEW to general approval at a mondo2000
conference on the WELL:
- The future has imploded onto the present.
There was no nuclear Armageddon.
There's too much Real Estate to lose.
The new battlefield is people's minds.
- The megacorps ARE the new governments.
- The U.S. is a big bully with lackluster economic power.
- The world is splintering into a trillion subcultures and
designer cults with their own languages, codes, and lifestyles.
- Computer-generated info-domains are the next frontiers.
- There IS better living through chemistry.
- Small groups or individual "console cowboys" can wield
tremendous power over governments, corporations, etc.
- The coalescence of a computer "culture" is expressed in self-aware
computer music, art, virtual communities, and a hacker/street tech
subculture. The computer nerd image is passe, and people are not
ashamed anymore about the role the computer has in this subculture.
The computer is a cool tool, a friend, important human augmentation.
- We're becoming CYBORGS. Our tech is getting smaller, closer to us,
and it will soon merge with us.
- Information wants to be free.
- Access to computers and anything which may teach you something
about how the world works should be unlimited and total.
- Always yield to the hands-on imperative.
- Mistrust Authority.
- Promote Decentraliztion.
- Do It Yourself.
- Fight the Power.
- Feed the noise back into the system.
- Surf the Edges.
[from mondo2000's USERS' GUIDE TO THE NEW EDGE; page 65-66; 1992]
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