Hey Christopher,

we’d be happy to take a look at your game. Would you mind sending us a request by email to hello@neondystopia.com? Looking forward to it 🙂

Best,

Veritas

Looking amazing.

Observer certainly did feel more like an art piece, a visual novel perhaps?

Social alienation is a very real thing and something that is very present in cyberpunk media. A really good modern example is Mr. Robot, and Serial Experiments Lain deals with this deeply. So when you say members of the open source community are moving to places like fediverse, do you mean for them to get better connected? Much of surveillance…[Read more]

I concur.

Humans are very good at weaponizing anything they can get their paws on, but it is also true that many fantastic inventions have been the product of this sort of development. We wouldn’t have the digital era without advances made in the World Wars. Although, it may have happened eventually outside of war based on much of the foundation existing…[Read more]

That is true, these kinds of principles work the best when a community is smaller.

Hey Jonathan, hippie culture and cyberpunk culture might not as far removed as you think. John Perry Barlow, the lead singer of the Grateful Dead, founded the Electronic Frontier Foundation and wrote the Declaration of Independence of Cyberspace. A lot of ideas in hippy culture came along for the ride with the Whole Earth Catalog that became The…[Read more]

Hey Love_letters, please send me a PM with the account you’d like to report. Can you describe what kind of graphics you’d like to see more of?

That is a huge question, definitely one that deserves probably a suite of articles. Anonymouization techniques have risen alongside internet tracking. There are artists creating various methods to combat facial recognition from masks, to hats, to make-up. Of course there is also legal action as above, not exactly a technology but also very…[Read more]

I’m really loving your work Nicholas.

The Neuromancer picture is by Juan Gimenez, pretty famous for his work with Heavy Metal and titles like the Metabarons.

There is still talk of development of a Neuromancer movie, with Tim Miller of Deadpool attached at the moment.

I agree with Shadowlink, one of the things that makes cyberpunk great is its diversity. Cyberpunk is fluid; it…[Read more]

Hmmm… sounds intriguing. Link?

That was certainly interesting….

For sure, I had a test done for acid reflux where they installed a small chip in my esophagus to monitor reflux levels. Super fascinating, but not exactly a pill.