Aryana Libris

Authors : Hafner Katie - Markoff John
Title : Cyberpunk Outlaws and hackers on the computer frontier
Year : 1995

Link download : Hafner_Katie_-_Markoff_John_-_Cyberpunk.zip

Introduction. We set out to investigate a computer un'derground that is the real-life version of cyberpunk, science fiction that blends high technology with outlaw culture. In cyberpunk novels high-tech rebels live in a dystopian future, a world dominated by technology and beset by urban decay and overpopulation. It's a world defined by infinitely powerful computers and vast computer networks that create alternative universes filled with electronic demons. Interlopers travel through these computergenerated landscapes. Some of them make their living buying, selling and stealing information, the currency of a computerized future. The television character Max Headroom, who lived in a network of mass media, popping up in computers and television sets everywhere, was considered pure cyberpunk. So was the 1982 movie Blade Runner, which portrays a slick, dark and dangerous world in which technology has triumphed and life is grim. ...