Re:Cyberpunk in the Nineties
by aranchelk on Friday August 25, 2023 @02:34AM
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Well said. The setup clearly was an (IMO schlocky) parody of the genre. The meat of it: neuro-linguistic hacking, the raft, the devastating gun called “reason” that was all superb and faithful to the genre.
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I think it plays especially well because the parodic exagerations of one era are indistinguishable from the dystopian elements of the future...
> the devastating gun called “reason”
That punchline...
And in the real world there's the Earth model that heavily influenced Google Earth, and the librarian's "intelligence without consciousness" conversational style is lookig pretty damn prescient right now.
I found the main neuro-linguistic hacking plot to be incredibly campy; it certainly took some of the core concepts of the genre and dialed them up to the point where one could argue it was parody.