Response for Carls "Old Hat" posting
I think that the idea Carl presented regarding Cyberpunk seemingly becoming a thing of the past is amazing. I always thought that somehow cyberpunk would live on forever in the eyes of those who engage in its creation. It does seem however that the reason behind the dwindling age of cyberpunk is that it has a hard time keeping up with the imagination behind actual technology. I mean it just seems hard to keep up from the perspective of cyberpunk in creating new material that grabs an audience causing them to be immersed in a fictional world of technology when your fiercest competitor, reality, keeps them immersed in the true world of technology from the workplace to the living place. It might have something to do with the fact that the Cyberpunk creators always assumed that these technological ideas wouldn’t ever be much more than imagination and technology blended together to experience something that will forever be unattainable. This nowadays, simply is no longer the case with the advancement of technology and the promising leaps and bound that this field plans to make in the future. “Simple sci-fi often assumes that, in the face of future technology, Man will be no different in action or attitude than he is today. Although it can be interesting to see a modern "everyman" dealing with the exotic problems created by future technology, those stories are rarely inspired.”
posted by Jack B. Nimble @ 1:27 PM
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