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Monday, November 29, 2010

Cyberpunk tropes

I was looking for cyberpunk ebooks and began thinking about common themes in cyberpunk literature.

http://www.cyberpunkreview.com/

AI evolves out of the internet
nanobots
India / Japan / China (is this just a western thing?)
neotribalism / geotribalism
copyright leads to war
lone hacker
against The Man
nearfuture (at least the beginning of the series)
space (in-system, not FTL)
urban
one-world syndrome / globalization
convergence
tech singularity
social breakdown as tech evolves faster than response
megacorporations
human vs. economy
lack of idealists / idealists die
hacker as protagonist
human mind incomplete without data access