I'd argue that cyberpunk wasn't primarilly about the net or cyberwear, it was about: * a visual aesthetic * a "street" / punk / outsider aesthetic * a sense of rootless anomie Recall that Gibson was influenced by "Beats" : people who don't fit in and thus fall into intersticeshttps://twitter.com/DaddyWarpig/status/1205257697429352450 …
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7/ For capturing pure loneliness, Dogfight by Gibson and
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I assume you've seen 2022? It's about a man who buys a computer program to love him, then loses her in a desperate quest to learn whether he had a mother.
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True, but there's another element in cyberpunk which is absent from Blade Runner: there *is* an alternative world into which you can escape, your true home. The alienation from meatspace is because you belong elsewhere.
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all of what you say here is correct
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This was true in Gibson's future, too.
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Right. That's kind of my point.
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