Skinjob: A Short Animated Fan Made Blade Runner Film

Happy New Year

Skinjob is a fan created short film. It features some nice choreographed scenes and great audio effects. It is best viewed on the largest screen you have.

BBC Neuromancer Radio Play

I read William Gibson's sprawl series, in which Neuromancer is the first of a three part series. Gibson, although the first is credited for creating the word cyberspace. I remember reading this series for the first time while at the university. Being a IT major I remember this series changing the way I looked the world and the world of technology.

"So I went out into the night and the neon and let the crowd pull me along, walking blind, willing myself to be just a segment of that mass organism, just one more drifting chip of consciousness under the geodesics."

Automatic Jack

William Gibson, Neuromancer

There are two one hours segments to this radio play.

1. Part 1
2. Part 2

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More BBC Sci-Fi Radio Plays

The Beginnings of Cyberpunk

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“The Matrix has its roots in primitive arcade games,' said the voice-over, 'in early graphics programs and military experimentation with cranial jacks. ¹ '"

William Gipson, Neromancer

I recently listen to commenter speak about Delany,s "Nova". The commenter mentioned that William Gipson and his cyberpunk novels had many influencers such as Philip K. Dick, Michael Moorcock, Roger Zelazny, John Brunner, J. G. Ballard, Philip José Farmer and Harlan Ellison, all were part of the New Wave science fiction movement of the 60's and 70s.

The following excerpt from "Delany's Nova" even envisioned humans "jacking into" the ships computer system, thus becoming one with it:

"Mouse reached around to the small of his back beneath his vest, and felt for the socket. It had been grafted into the base of his spine cord back in Cooper. He picked up the first reflex cable that looped across the floor to disappear into the computers face, and fiddled with it till the twelve prongs slipped into his socket and caught. He took the smaller, six-prong plug and slipped it into the plug on the underside of his left wrist; them the other into his right."

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¹ "Cranial Jacks are human-computer interface devices, designed to connect directly to the brain/brain stem in order to control complex machinery."

Neuromancer: The Origin of Cyberpunk | A Horrifying Dystopia

Happy New Year. May it be happy and prosperous.

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Quinn's Ideas

Cyberpunk Documentary, part 3

Cyberpunk Documentary, part 2

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How William Gibson’s Cyberpunk Radically Changed Science Fiction

The Cyberpunk Project: William Gibson

Cyberpunk Documentary, part 1

Cyberpunk may be new to some of you, but while away at university I cut my teeth on the cyberpunk genre and literature while reading William Gibson's Sprawl trilogy. These texts changed the way I looked at the world. We are not there yet, however it seems that we are moving in the direction.

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Edited on 1.1.2024 @ 11:34 PM.. Added additional comments.

Burning Chrome Audio

To here Gibson's Burning Chrome being read is to understand Gibson's genius.

Burning Chrome - The Matrix

"The core data began to emerge, exposed and vulnerable... This is the far side of ice ¹, the view of the matrix ² I've never seen before, the view that fifteen million legitimate console operators see daily and take for granted."

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¹ "ICE: Intrusion CounterMeasures Electroncs"

² "The matrix is an abstract representation of the relationship between data systems."

Burning Chrome, Burning Chrome, William Gibson, 1986

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• Quotes from Burning Chrome,
• Literature in a Wired World Wiki: Burning Chrome

Edited on 12.16.23, added link to Burning Chrome Quotes AND etc. @ 10:45 AM.

The Dystopian Cyberpunk Slums of Warhammer 40k!

Scenes from The Matrix Reloaded

Landing the Nebuchadnezzar in Zion

The Nebuchadnezzar Safely Landed

Scenes from Zion

The Nebuchadnezzar

The Nebuchadnezzar, a ship of sort, was repurposed by the human rebels to covertly broadcast the minds of up to seven people into the Matrix.

The control room is where all excursions into the Matrix are monitored and controled.

The Matrix

System Failure

The Matrix is all around us.

Why William Gibson Is a Literary Genius

A worth while aricle by Jason Guriel on the genius of William Gibson's literature. Many years ago Johnny Mnemonic was required reading for a college class and I this is how I became smitten with the Gibson's work. I went on to read his Sprawl trilogy":Neuromancer (1984), Count Zero (1986), and Mona Lisa Overdrive (1988) and I have never looked at technolgy the same since. Gibson's litature literature is fast, raw, and capivating.

Cyberspace

“Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts... A graphic representation of data abstracted from banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity. Lines of light ranged in the nonspace of the mind, clusters and constellations of data. Like city lights, receding...”

William Gibson, Neuromancer

Black Ice

“Black ice. Don’t think about it. Black ice.¹

To many stories in the Gentleman Loser, black ice is a part of the mythology. Ice that kills. Illegal, but then aren’t we all? Some kind of neural feedback weapon, and you can connect with it only once. Like some hideous Word that eats the mind from the inside out. Like an epileptic spasm that goes on and on until there’s nothing left at all.”

Burning Chrome, William Gibson

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1: A cyber security mojo.