The Future Died in 1999 - Blood Knife
The once-anarchic promise of Cyberpunk has dwindled to empty, dystopian cynicism. What happened—and can we restore the hacker's revolutionary potential?
The Future Died in 1999 Reclaiming the radical possibilities of Cyberpunk . by Colin Broadmoor The future died in 1999. Ever since, we’ve been trapped in the eternal present—waiting for the other shoe to drop. For two decades, we’ve fought the same wars, watched the police murder the same people, voted for the same duopoly, and paid for the same IPs in books, movies, and video games. I’m typing this at the close of A.D. 2020—the year I waited for all my life, the way some Christians wait for the Second Coming. 2020, the year forever associated with media like R. Talsorian’s Cyberpunk 2020 (2 n
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