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Summary Essay




#Hacker Subcult#
 This is our world now... the world of the electron and the switch, the
beauty of the baud.  We make use of a service already existing without paying
for what could be dirt-cheap if it wasn't run by profiteering gluttons, and
you call us criminals.  We explore... and you call us criminals.  We seek
after knowledge... and you call us criminals.  We exist without skin color,
without nationality, without religious bias... and you call us criminals.
You build atomic bombs, you wage wars, you murder, cheat, and lie to us
and try to make us believe it's for our own good, yet we're the criminals.

Yes, I am a criminal.  My crime is that of curiosity.  My crime is
that of judging people by what they say and think, not what they look like.
My crime is that of outsmarting you, something that you will never forgive me
for.

        I am a hacker, and this is my manifesto.  You may stop this individual,but you can't stop us all... after all, we're all alike.





#Cyberpunk# is a subgenre of science fiction in a futuristic setting that tends to focus on a "combination of lowlife and high tech"[1] featuring advanced technological and scientific achievements, such as artificial intelligence and cybernetics, juxtaposed with a degree of breakdown or radical change in the social order.

#Futurist#

#Dystopian Futurist# Dystopia: A futuristic, imagined universe in which oppressive societal control and the illusion of a perfect society are maintained through corporate, bureaucratic, technological, moral, or totalitarian control.

#Transhumanist#


# Outline

1. # Cyberpunk Origins

1a. Origins and Themes

- Born out of counter culture science fiction of the 70s and 80s.
It describes a society controlled by multinational corporations and authoritarian governments through the use of advanced technology.
- Heavily rooted in underground hacker subcultures.
- Highly Anti-Authoritarian, Anti-Capitalist
- Describes a society controlled by a Surveillance State.
- Abject Poverty, Classism, Competing Techno Subcultures
-  Anti-Government Anti-Corporate, Anti-Surveillance
- Societal Collapse
- Concept of "freedom" in a technological, globalized world dominated by quasi-criminal monopolies.
- Moral degradation of society, Degradation of Natural Resources, Rapidly changing economy,
- Post Industrial Information Age, Rapidly changing economy
- Relation between Consumerism and Personal Identity

1b. Individuality and Political Ideologies
- Liberal Ideals, Freedom of Information, Freedom of Speech
- Distrust of Government, Politicians and Corporations
- Heavily aligned with scientific institutions such as science, education, engineering, journalism, and intelligence.
- Cynical mistrust of authority and closed ecosystems
- Open Source Ideology not in regards to software but life and information in general, Believes that a person must be free to manipulate machines or products as they see fit.
- Free and open society that promotes democratic exchange of ideas and information.
- Believes in Deploying "Information Warfare" in order to achieve  political objectives, whether it be revolutionary protests or responding to a government hostile to personal freedoms.
- Favors Anonymity in an age without privacy
- Privacy advocate, generally in a field related to computer science.