Cyberpunk
"High tech, low life."
"The street finds its own uses for things."
We all know the quotes and the books. But cyberpunk is more than a neon-soaked, cybernetic aesthetic, or a gritty dystopian science fiction genre. It is a subculture composed of two fundamental ideas: PUNK, and CYBER.
The PUNK: antiauthoritarian, anticapitalist, radical freedom of expression, rejection of tradition, a DIY ethic.
The CYBER: all that, but high-fuckin'-tech, ya feel? From DIYing body mods to using bleeding edge software to subvert corporate interests. It's punk for the 22nd century.
This is a community dedicated to discussing anything cyberpunk, be it books, movies, or other art that falls into the genre, or real life tech, projects, stories, ideas or anything else that adheres to these ideals. It's a place for 'punks from all over the federated Net to hang out and swap stories and meaningful content (not just pictures of city nightscapes).
Welcome in, choom.
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I agree with the conversion over time to ensure the meat-me doesn't have a sense of death, but I'd be interested in having a Gestalt existence... And seeing how that worked in a real psychological sense. It may not work out... But, we can simply recompile in a central hub, then redownload. Same experience for all copies. In theory.
On that note, I still haven't found equivalents of many of my old reddit subs... Is there a good transhumanism community anyone can share?
This community is about the ethos of cyberpunk as a subculture as much as it is about the literal genre, and transhumanism is very much a part of that, so for now you could post about that here. You could also create a transhumanism community yourself!
No, thanks. That is for better men. (I am strapped for time as it is, I wouldn't do it justice.)
But I can and will share stuff here ;)