Cyberpunk | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-03-26

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00:02:27 1 Background
00:04:08 2 History and origins
00:12:37 3 Style and ethos
00:13:53 3.1 Setting
00:16:46 3.2 Protagonists
00:18:06 3.3 Society and government
00:20:09 4 Media
00:20:18 4.1 Literature
00:24:34 4.1.1 Reception and impact
00:26:31 4.2 Film and television
00:29:02 4.3 Anime and manga
00:32:37 4.3.1 Influence
00:34:59 4.4 Games
00:38:49 4.5 Music
00:41:09 5 Social impact
00:41:19 5.1 Art and architecture
00:41:42 5.2 Society and counterculture
00:43:45 5.3 Related genres
00:45:48 6 Trademark



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Cyberpunk is a subgenre of science fiction in a futuristic setting that tends to focus on a "combination of lowlife and high tech" featuring advanced technological and scientific achievements, such as artificial intelligence and cybernetics, juxtaposed with a degree of breakdown or radical change in the social order.Much of cyberpunk is rooted in the New Wave science fiction movement of the 1960s and 1970s, when writers like Philip K. Dick, Roger Zelazny, J. G. Ballard, Philip José Farmer and Harlan Ellison examined the impact of drug culture, technology and the sexual revolution while avoiding the utopian tendencies of earlier science fiction. Released in 1984, William Gibson's influential debut novel Neuromancer would help solidify cyberpunk as a genre, drawing influence from punk subculture and early hacker culture. Other influential cyberpunk writers included Bruce Sterling and Rudy Rucker. The Japanese cyberpunk subgenre began in 1982 with the debut of Katsuhiro Otomo's manga series Akira, with its 1988 anime film adaptation later popularizing the subgenre.
Early films in the genre include Ridley Scott's 1982 film Blade Runner, one of several of Philip K. Dick's works that have been adapted into films. The films Johnny Mnemonic (1995) and New Rose Hotel (1998), both based upon short stories by William Gibson, flopped commercially and critically. The Matrix trilogy (1999-2003) were some of the most successful cyberpunk films. More recent additions to this genre of filmmaking include Blade Runner 2049 (2017), sequel to the original 1982 film, as well as Upgrade (2017), Alita: Battle Angel (2019) based on the 1990s Japanese manga Battle Angel Alita, and the 2018 Netflix TV series Altered Carbon.