Lecture: Virtual Philosophy and CyberPunk
Cyberpunk is a science fiction genre based in the possibilities inherent in computers, genetic, body modification and corporate developments in the near future. The work comes froma an amalgamation of the two words
Cybernetics: The study of communication, command and control in living organisms, machines and organizations.
Greek kybernetes meaning steers man or pilot, the concept developed during and after WWII to indicate the use of systematic approach to complex issues such as managing a large number of computers at distributed sights or understanding the operations of the brain.
Punk: A style of fast, loud, short rock music with an anarchist political philosophy and a DIY, anti-expert 'seize the day' approach to life.
Represented in the music of bands such as sex pistols, the Clash and Black Assassins.
Cyberpunk was developed as a reaction against the over blown and predominantly safe stories of "space Opera" such as star wars.
Some themes within Cyberpunk are Technology and mythology, Utopia and Distopia, Cities as machines, technological change and modernism to post modernism.
Tutorial task 8 (part 2): Internet field trip, 3D worlds and socializing on the internet.
Msn vs. Habbo hotel
Habbo hotel is a more visually interactive type of chat, where you are able to perform tasks and interact with other habbo’s by dancing, playing games, winning prizes and making money; you are also able to buy things for your hotel room. Where as msn is mainly text based with other small applications, like icons and emotions, though file sharing, such as pictures are able to be preformed on msn. With msn you only add and accept the people you want on your own list to chat to, so it is more private, in habbo hotel, you are still able to chose who you chat with though its slightly less private as it is a public chat space.
Required Reading: Plato's Cave and Burning Chrome
Burning Chrome written by William Gibson, Fictional Writer, key concepts are cyberspace and virtual reality, his work is of sci-fi genre.
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