Cyberpunk

William Gibson's Sprawl trilogy novels are famous early cyberpunk novels. Cyberpunk is a subgenre of science fiction in a future setting, noted for its focus on "high tech and low life".[1][2] It features advanced technology and science, such as information technology and cybernetics, coupled with a degree of breakdown or radical change in the social order.[3] Classic cyberpunk characters were marginalized, alienated loners who lived on the edge of society in generally dystopic futures where daily life was impacted by rapid technological change, an ubiquitous datasphere of computerized information, and invasive modification of the human body. Style and ethos[edit] Primary exponents of the cyberpunk field include William Gibson, Neal Stephenson, Bruce Sterling, Pat Cadigan, Rudy Rucker, and John Shirley.[8] Setting[edit] Shibuya, Tokyo.[11] Of Japan's influence on the genre, William Gibson said, "Modern Japan simply was cyberpunk Protagonists[edit] Society and government[edit] Media[edit]

Cyberpunk Review Voice of the Shuttle Echo Chernik - Art Nouveau Illustration The Psychology of Cyberspace - Home Page/Table of Contents This hypertext book explores the psychological aspects of environments created by computers and online networks. I think of it as evolving conceptual framework for understanding how people react to and behave within cyberspace: what I call "the psychology of cyberspace" - or simply "cyberpsychology." Revised and expanded over time, this hypertext book originally was created in January of 1996. My most recent work focuses on a specific area of cyberpsychology that I call photographic psychology: the study of how people create, share, and react to images in the age of digital technology and cyberspace. I have devoted a separate online book to that topic. Here, in The Psychology of Cyberspace, I offer what I consider to be my comprehensive classic text on the wider topic of human experiences in the online world. In order to make these readings accessible to as many people as possible, I have written them in a style that is not overly abstract or technical.