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The term "postcyberpunk" was first used circa 1991 to describe ;'' the next year, he posted the article to the popular technology website Slashdot . The article identified the emergence of a postcyberpunk as the evolution of the cyberpunk Genre of Science-fiction popular in the late 1970s and 1980s characterized by movies like '' Blade Runner '' and Books like William Gibson's '' Neuromancer '':

:"Bud, from Neal Stephenson's '' The Diamond Age '', is a classic cyberpunk protagonist. An aggressive, black-leather clad criminal loner with cybernetic body augmentations (including a neurolinked skull gun), Bud makes his living first as a drug runner's decoy, then by terrorizing tourists for money. All of which goes a long way toward explaining why his ass gets wasted on page 37 of a 455 page novel. Welcome to the postcyberpunk era."

Like its predecessor, postcyberpunk depicts realistic near-futures rather than Space Opera –style deep futures. The focus is on the social effects of Earth-bound technology rather than space travel. Person argues that postcyberpunk is distinct from Cyberpunk in the following ways:
  • Cyberpunk typically deals with Alienated loners in a Dystopia . Postcyberpunk tends to deal with characters who are more involved with society, and act to defend an existing social order or create a better society.

  • In cyberpunk, the alienating effect of new technology is emphasised, whereas in postcyberpunk, "technology ''is'' society" (including more Technocracy and Cyberprep themes than traditional cyberpunk).


Other possible characteristics:
  • A more realistic depiction of computers, such as replacing virtual reality with a sort of super voice/audio/video/holographic Internet -based network.

  • A change in emphasis from metallic implants to Biotechnology -enabled Body Modification .


Postcyberpunk possibly emerged because SF authors and the general population began using computers, the Internet , and PDAs to their benefit, without the massive social fragmentation of this Digital Revolution predicted in the 1970s and 1980s.


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Postcyberpunk could become an umbrella for all sorts of interesting near-future action in movies and books such as Max Barry's satirical '' Jennifer Government ''. Postcyberpunk novels and movies have as of 2004 yet to gain as widespread popularity as their precursors (the Matrix Trilogy is usually considered cyberpunk). Somewhat ironically, the technological optimism seen in postcyberpunk work can be traced back to Isaac Asimov 's Laws Of Robotics , or even to the sympathetic robots Helen O. Loy and Adam Link , all of which predate cyberpunk by a half-century.

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