Hacking Our Way Out of a Cyberpunk Future
Cyberpunks married a “hard sf” approach to technology (cyber) with a subcultural perspective (punk). Or as Sterling puts it: “An unholy alliance of the technical world and the world of organized dissent—the underground world of pop culture, visionary fluidity and street-level anarchy.” Or, more simply: high tech, low life.
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