This is the best Cyberpunk documentary because is independent, is independent of games studios trying to promote their game, Hollywood trying to promote their movie and erasing the counterculture of hacking and anti corporate sentiment of the cyberpunk movement. Dark literature Dark Music Anti capitalism A true “watch out” for what is to come if we as humans are to continue on this path… what is true and what is machine, profit over people? This is our future - the people who in one side is fascinated also frustrated of our road ahead. Cyberpunks, the real first hacktivists, learning all about computers and technology on late obsessive nights to know and be able to change the future. Information wants to be free Cyberpunk: Hight Tech - for the rich, Low life - for the poor.

"Since the 1982 publication of William Gibson’s Neuromancer, the first in a groundbreaking series of science fiction novels, many of his fictional concepts have been realized. Moreover, a segment of Western youth has dedicated itself to living in Gibson’s fictional world made fact.

The cyberpunk movement embraces artificial reality, bionic medicine, “smart” weapons and drugs, and industrial music. But most notably, cyberpunks are associated with computer hacking, piracy and crimes. These are young people who fight fire with fire, pitching their ethos, “Information wants to be free,” against those who would control, restrict, or direct high technology. Their agenda is similar to that of the Sixties counterculture, yet their means are very different, and to some, terrifying. Cyberpunk tells how this phenomenon began and explores its implications.

Included are interviews with Gibson, Jaron Lanier, Timothy Leary and Michael Synergy. Cyberpunk is futuristic “edutainment,” whose production values mirror its content. It features animation as well as live-action, and “guerilla image processing” techniques that were once available only to large production companies that could afford expensive generators. The filmmakers’ declared intent was somewhat subversive: To create such density of audio-visual stimulation that even the itinerant viewer would be engaged and entertained, hardly suspecting that the results would be education and thinking."

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    lol, lbry is still so tiny but already got blocked in my country :)

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      lol really? what about peertube?

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        popular instances work fine, they tried banning invidious at some point, but evidently later reversed their decision…

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          Invidious is a temp solution it still feeds capitalist google/surveillance capitalism in support, the real solution is to populate peertube that is open/transparent/decentralized it respects the hacker ethics of mistrust authority(centralization, authoritarianism) and promotes decentralization. lbry is the lesser evil of all here. but also promotes anti hacker culture invasive tools like discord, but does open their source, youtube does nothing of this and abuses people.

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            yeah, I agree, but I still use invidious at times…

            wait lbry has closed-sourced components?

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              not lbry itself, is still centralized tho, but they do plan in and are encouraging for more apps etc… but their development and community is based on discord, twitter etc… as a developer myself I will had help them with some stuff but they wanted me to “come to our discord if you want to help” so I was like nope, ethics firsts, so now im helping peertube. also have email them with a formal nice email questioning why are they in one side promoting “freedom, decentralization, etc” but then turning away and encouraging discord, seems to me like an oxymoron to promote your app like “decentralized” and critic youtube for not doing that, then turning around on what they preach to promote centralized/closed tools…

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                i hate discord myself and I hate when people rely on it, making it the only way to participate in some discussion/contact someone, but I feel that many projects are justified in making the choice to use proprietary communication solutions to reach as many people as possible as opposed to using a libre solution that very little people use

                in the end it’s all about the software itself: yes, of course it’s nice when projects also use libre methods of communication, but I get their appeal to use proprietary software to reach more users

                ok fuck this, people should use matrix, it takes like 2 seconds to sign up for it, screw discord etc

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                  lol thats what I call a “radical” change of heart :D :D :D but Im glad :) I am not like RMS as in you should use libre or not use anything… I am more like “if there are options then use them but if there are not then is ok until we build the options” in the case of communications there are tons of options.