Just musing here, this was set in motion from someone's comment on the Revolution controller and not having to move at all. I'm a casual fan of cyberpunk, and the thought of "jacking in" occured to me. I wondered, given our experience with the security vulnerabilities of computers, if actually having a port mounted into your temple might take us down an entirely different road than what cyberpunk has traveled. You'd have to firewall your own head, constantly download security patches to keep out spy- and ad-ware...your first marriage wasn't that important, you need extra space to keep flesh-hackers from seizing control of your nervous system, making credit card purchases and sending them gods know where, taking out life insurance policies and jumping your ass in front of a train, downloading your most humiliating experiences and selling them to a voyeuristic public, and having local and federal governments casually pawing through your mindscape for evidence. It could make for a decent short story anyway. Sorry about the misleading title.
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Last edited by Shard; 10-27-2005, 12:13 PM.So you're a fish out of water...
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Ghost in the Shell has a lot of that type of stuff.
And then there's Johnny Mnemonic."Mindless killing doesn't do a lot for me anymore." - Sampson -
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Mostly I was thinking of Gibson's Neuromancer, but I'm only marginally acquainted with cyberpunk in general. It just seems to me that rather than having the sweeping mega-corps versus the little guys trying to hack it outside the confines of the law, we'd all just be awash with the detritus of people's lives and the scurry to protect what little remains to ourselves.
How's Ghost in the Shell? I saw a smidgeon of the manga and it looked interesting, but then I saw some of the anime and my interest died. All the cleverness of the manga seemed to have evaporated when it was translated to anime, but this is based on very limited exposure.Last edited by Shard; 10-27-2005, 12:38 PM.So you're a fish out of water...
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The movies aren't exactly superb, but the series, Stand Alone Complex and its second season, SAC: 2nd Gig, are quite excellent. I don't know how any of it translates to or from manga, because I don't really read manga."Mindless killing doesn't do a lot for me anymore." - SampsonComment
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How the hell can u not read MangaComment
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Not everyone is into it.
Moving this to Free Form.
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You've been denied all the best ultra topic moding.Comment
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There arent a whole lot of movies and shows about this type of cybernetics, but there is a lot of books.
Shard mentioned Neuromancer and Big Rick mentioned Johnny Neumonic, both by William Gibson. Hes an amazing author. I believe Johnny Neumonic is in his short story collection, "Burning Chrome". All of the stories in there are awesome. One of my favorites is the Beloning Kind. Not cyberpunk but just a great story.
Another great cyberpunk author is Neil Stevenson. Snow Crash is by far one of the most brilliant stories I have ever ready. I *seriously* suggest it. You wont be disappointed, I promise.
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Oh yeah, play some Shadowrun. Either table top rpg or the Genisis game. Its better than the SNES game.Last edited by Snarf; 10-27-2005, 04:32 PM.Comment
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And don't forget "Snatcher" for Sega Cd.
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I played the SNES version of Shadowrun when I was younger. It hasn't aged as well as some SNES games, but it's not bad. About the same time I was also reading some of the Shadowrun books. Their quality varied with the writer, but I've always thought it was an under-served genre as far as games and entertainment go, although I've heard it's more popular in Britain than it is here in the U.S.So you're a fish out of water...
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Go buy Snow Crash right now.Comment
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That's not exactly readily available though, is it?Originally posted by VonwertAnd don't forget "Snatcher" for Sega Cd.
And yeah, Ghost in the Shell - the movies and the series - deal with exactly this.
But if you hated Eva you'd probably wanna burn Ghost in the Shell.Comment
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Snow Crash and Neuromancer are my favorite fiction stories.
If anything, the cyberpunk world is already here, albeit in its initial stages. We already have the megacorps running the lives of most and a highly developed computer based communications network. Cyberpunk fiction saw this coming 20 years ago.The unnecessary felling of a tree, perhaps the growth of centuries, seems to me a crime little short of murder." ~ Thomas JeffersonComment
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