What follows is a series of quotes and paraphrases taken from a variety of sources. No attempt has been made to clarify their original intent nor to put them in any order. The original authors include Bruce Sterling, John Shirley, William Gibson, Mark Downham, and Gareth Branwyn. Models are not true or false, they are more or less useful.
Cyberpunk is endless skimming.
Images, electronic continents, drift past the retina, moving towards pure surface. Our vast technological changes are shaping new forms of culture, social organization, and myth-making. Cyberpunk is about technological implosion, miniaturization, and synaesthetic media. We are very quickly entering a world where the difference between fantasy and reality is difficult or impossible to distinguish. It is a globalized world pulsing with information flows and data commodities, a place where infinite sub-cultures and mind cults live in their own pocket universes.