The easy access to information and communication rough the internet, for example, gives us more power to control our environment. Towards a metaphorical cartography of the present. They were thus forced to develop independent thought and self-reliance. Athenian pilots had to make their own navigational decisions. Punk rock music in the 1970s gave this term a social acceptability it didn't have 25 years ago.
Cyberpunks use all available data-input to think for themselves.
The classical model of the cyberpunk for Leary is Prometheus , who stole fire from the gods to give it to humanity. He was a theif, an outlaw, but his theft enriched the social world with technology. The cyberpunk mythos reflects the glorification and heroism of the lone independent warrior. There is little question that history overdetermines current social and cultural formations in ways that cannot be completely predicted beforehand. That the Internet began as a military technology devoted to preserving communications in the aftermath of a nuclear war is a commonplace historical observation.