Word: cyberpunk
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While the concept of a salon may be traditional, this particular one can only be described as "late century cyberpunk frat." Over by the patio is a slate-gray pool table perched on construction girders, and out on the lawn is a sensory-deprivation chamber. The garage is less a garage than a World Wide Web command post. Hiding among the overstuffed sofas and comic- book art in the living room are a video-game power glove, the latest issue of Rolling Stone and a Yoda mask. The dining room is dominated by a psychedelic poster from...
...MOST DANGEROUS ADVERSARY in a potential cyberwar isn't the Iranians, Iraqis, Russians or even the Japanese. It is Americans. The emerging cyberpunk culture has already demonstrated the capability to disrupt our lives and make headlines via electronics. If a computer virus turns out to be the cheapest, easiest and most efficient weapon for terrorists, they will use one. The end result could be equivalent to a terrorist nuclear weapon. The scary thing is that all the tools needed are in place today. JAY THOMAS Princeton, New Jersey Via E-mail...
...unoriginal. Most boiled down to a couple of thugs (male or female) slugging and kicking it out, or to various vehicles racing through a maze of one sort or another, avoiding obstacles and obliterating anything that moves. A typical title in this genre: a 3DO game called Hell: A Cyberpunk Thriller...
...intern at the Boston Phoenix, and I wrote an article researched on the net about netheads' reaction to the TIME Magazine cyberpunk story. Of course, they all hated it, and the irony was that TIME Magazine didn't really look on the net. The people who it would have called cyberpunks hated what it had to say, so it was this typical punk reaction of, "Go home, leave us alone, under our rock, and don't talk like you know what we mean." So, I wrote this article called "Netheads," and I started thinking...
Recently, Sun Microsystems, a leading manufacturer of high-end computers (the "fas" machine is a Sun, for example), has added a new term to the cyberpunk lexicon: HotJava...