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>huge invasive governments buddy up with megacorporations.
>cryptocurrencies are booming.
>political and social instability everywhere.
>corruption is exposed mainly by hackers.
>governments wage open or covert cyberwar on eachother and their citizens.
>whistleblower hackers are hailed as heroes.
>the internet and technology control every aspect of most people's everyday lives.
The world already is cyberpunk.
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>Corps have the power and own the people
>Tech so advanced it has no real use
>People are created as cattle and so have to be allowed to breed in larger countries
>Designer drugs so powerful and complex they can put you in a near permanent state of intoxication
>Hacking and cybercrime so relevant they have organizations with recognizable brands and names and are talked about on major news stations.
>World decaying as we continue to let smog corrode our skys and dump radioactive poison in our waters
What are we missing? Besides cyber enhancements and working robo-prosthetic? (which are literally both around the corner with the tech labs getting the money they get from mega-corps looking for beefed meat in the security sector.) Not long before youll see them lobbying for the same guns rights nuclear plants get, just you wait boy.
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>how do I into cyberpunk?
You start by reading. A lot.
- Cheap Truth (the zine)
- everything by Wm Gibson, starting with the Burning Chrome collection and then Sprawl trilogy
- most of what Bruce Sterling, John Shirley et. al wrote
- Shockwave Rider, and Last Stand on Zanzibar
- Tiger, Tiger
- most of the early writings of Neal Stephenson
- the Altered Carbon series (if you can stomach the blood bath)
Manga:
- Gunnm
- GitS
- Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou (stealthily cyberpunk - very slow, very good)
Movies
- Blade Runner
- Tetsuo the Iron Man and others from that collective (if you can stomach the gore)
Tech nonfiction, read up on topics such as
- network and communications, including wireline and RF
- RF and optics including stealth, and read the radio primer paste at http://pastebin.com/9uYXMhVm
- bio including gene tech, CRISPS/Cas9 is about to blow the roof off society
How society works
- Cargo Cult Science by Feynman
- introductory organizational theory (both will tell you how messed up society and human really is)
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Anime:
-Serial Experiments Lain
-Armitage III
-Area 88 OVA
-Cyber City Oedo 808
-Black Magic M66
-Interstella 55555
-Space Dimension Fortress Macross
-Bubblegum Crisis
-Space Runaway Ideon
-AD Police
-Parasite Dolls
-Megazone 23
-Texhnolyze
-Ergo Proxy
-Psycho-pass
-Alien 9
-MD Geist
-Neo Tokyo
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-Gasaraki
-Ghost in the Shell: SAC
-Ghost in the Shell 1995
-Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence
-Paranoia Agent
-Akira
-Patlabor 2
-Jin-Roh
-Key the Metal Idol
-Wicked City
-Ninja Scroll
-Demon City Shinjuku
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source: /cyb/ + /sec/: Cyberpunk and Cybersecurity General on /g/