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. Cyberpunk is an industrial myth of the near future, a new techno-surreal fiction. Cyberpunk is a scrambled mass of referential fictions in search of an operational strategy for the living of life, which is increasingly experiencing slippage into the virtual technologies of the near future. The real is leaking into the representational.