The whole Cyberpunk movement happened fast and the writers mostly worked independently of one another, yet it seems that there was some similarity stylistically. We had done parallel work. It was like steam-engine time. We were writing on similar themes because it was what somebody who had a slightly literary bent, who was writing science fiction would naturally do at a time when technology was having a big sociological impact. Also I think that everybody was having an anti-authoritarian backlash during the Reagan years.
Cyberpunk is fairly individualistic and anti-authoritarian.
We were the kind of guys who grew up reading Phillip K. Dick, one of the premiere oddballs of modern American writing and science fiction. His imagery is dark, urban imagery. Dick's writing had a big influence on Cyberpunk. And that whole scene continues to have an influence on filmmaking, even with films that aren't science fiction like Black Rain. That vision of the future is relatively accurate I think.