This week we looked at Cyberpunk, which is Cybernetics (the study of communication, command and control of organisms) combined with Punk (a form of anti-establishment rock music).
The film “Matrix” is considered to be in the cyberpunk genre. The machines rule in the future world with the humans living in a virtual realty world created and controlled by the machines. A small group of “Punks” reject their virtual world and try to have the human race wake up to reality.
This is one of the themes of cyberpunk, in that technological knowledge brings with it an awareness of society’s problems. This means that we can either view a utopian society as one that embraces technology as the answer to all of life’s problems, or one that rejects technology in favour of getting back to nature.
Another theme of cyberpunk deals with how the type of the city we live in can determine how people live their lives, with the city being regarded as living machine, a cyborg. It is created by humans for humans to live, and therefore it is constructed from living human tissue within a mechanical structure.
How humans communicate with each other has changed with advances in technology. Mass communication in the past has been made up of a relatively small number of senders of information to a large number of receivers. The internet has changed that so that anyone can send information out to the masses on a world wide basis.
The film “Matrix” is considered to be in the cyberpunk genre. The machines rule in the future world with the humans living in a virtual realty world created and controlled by the machines. A small group of “Punks” reject their virtual world and try to have the human race wake up to reality.
This is one of the themes of cyberpunk, in that technological knowledge brings with it an awareness of society’s problems. This means that we can either view a utopian society as one that embraces technology as the answer to all of life’s problems, or one that rejects technology in favour of getting back to nature.
Another theme of cyberpunk deals with how the type of the city we live in can determine how people live their lives, with the city being regarded as living machine, a cyborg. It is created by humans for humans to live, and therefore it is constructed from living human tissue within a mechanical structure.
How humans communicate with each other has changed with advances in technology. Mass communication in the past has been made up of a relatively small number of senders of information to a large number of receivers. The internet has changed that so that anyone can send information out to the masses on a world wide basis.
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