This weeks lecture was about the subject CyberPunk, with a big focus on one of the worlds leading authors on that subject William Gibson. What i personally struggle with is the term "cyberpunk" since it is not something that can be specifically defined. I think about words like, mutation, technology, people controlled by machines etc. the main goal i think is to make people aware of what impact technology can have on people, most ways negative. To spice up the lecture we did see a clip from one of the worlds most famous movies the Matrix. There are several examples of films made to "predict" just what the technology can do to mankind: The Terminator, Alien, 12 monkeys, Robocop, Irobot, The Matrix, Total Recall and the most recent film AVATAR. this are all names taken from the nerdie page;www.cyberpunkreview.com/, i must admit this in mot my kind of genre. I think is most about weird fiction, but it also highlight what technology is capable of doing.
The focus was also on the author William Gibson.He is one of the leading authors in science fiction.
he has been given name such as the king of cyberpunk, he first started writing his Sci-Fi novels in the 1970´s. I found a frase were he is describing the period were he got the into writing again"In 1977, facing first-time parenthood and an absolute lack of enthusiasm for anything like "career," I found myself dusting off my twelve-year-old's interest in science fiction. Simultaneously, weird noises were being heard from New York and London. I took Punk to be the detonation of some slow-fused projectile buried deep in society's flank a decade earlier, and I took it to be, somehow, a sign. And I began, then, to write"
William Gibson, "Since 1948.
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