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Cyberpunk doesn’t feel so novel anymore because we’re quite literally living in a Cyberpunk dystopia. We don’t just notice it in the same way that fish don’t no
by mattkevan 7y ago
Cyberpunk doesn’t feel so novel anymore because we’re quite literally living in a Cyberpunk dystopia. We don’t just notice it in the same way that fish don’t notice it’s wet.
As for Gibson’s Neuromancer aesthetic, it’s been strip-mined and recycled so thoroughly that it no longer has the shock of the new.
As a similar example, the bullet-time effects used in the Matrix (which itself owes a huge debt to Gibson) were so different, they went from jaw-dropping to cliche almost immediately through overuse.
- pharke 7y ago>Cyberpunk doesn’t feel so novel anymore because we’re quite literally living in a Cyberpunk dystopia. Not really. Our AI is speciously intelligent, our computers are woodenly interactive, our governments are unimaginatively democratic, and our corporations are predictably mercantile. There is a general feeling of living in a pre-cyberpunk present but little of that world has materialized and I feel, like notions of a coming atomic age, it will continue to languish unfulfilled until replaced by another fashionable future.