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1-> ''"Anything that can be done to a rat can be done to a human being. And we can do most anything to rats. This is a hard thing to think about, but it's the truth. It won't go away because we cover our eyes. THAT is cyberpunk."''
2-->-- '''Bruce Sterling'''
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4-> ''"The inevitable collision of punk sensibility -- the unrest, the rebellion -- with desk-top computers."''
5-->-- '''Pat Cadigan'''
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7-> ''"Small minds play big time games, and everybody else pays."''
8-->-- '''Music/{{Devo}},''' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nf8OmnRIBvA Some Things Never Change]] (the theme for a video game based on Literature/{{Neuromancer}})
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10-> ''"We've got the corporate control, news as entertainment, hacker revolutionaries, and class warfare of your typical cyberpunk future but somehow missed out on the android servants."''
11-->--'''Creator/CTPhipps''', [[http://unitedfederationofcharles.blogspot.com/2017/01/top-signs-were-living-in-cyberpunk.html Top Signs We're Living in a Cyberpunk Future]].
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13-> ''"The key pillars of the cyberpunk genre are advanced technology, dystopian society, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking trenchcoats]]."''
14-->-- '''Jane Douglas''', ''WebVideo/OutsideXbox''
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16->''A glaring neon glow illuminates this street\
17Breathe in these human vapors, sweat and heavy heat\
18High tech cathedrals rise and fall in great ravines\
19Colossal steeples to the gods in the machines\
20Broken body built anew\
21Spirit lingers, torn in two\
22Metal fingers grip my heart so cold\
23Fossil fuels to slavery, political duplicity\
24Every great commodity's been sold\
25Slave to the new black gold\
26There's a heartbeat under my skin\
27Search my electric soul\
28For the hidden man within...''
29-->-- '''Music/MiracleOfSound''', "[[VideoGame/DeusExHumanRevolution The New Black Gold]]"
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31->''In the year 2091, pervasive advancements in technology and computerization haven't changed human nature. Playing with people's lives has never been more fun.''
32-->-- '''Opening''', ''VideoGame/{{RUINER}}''
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34->"Computers are running everything these days. Before long, human beings aren't even gonna have a say. So now I equip people with knowledge. The knowledge to make a computer do what you want, on your terms."
35-->--Ghast, ''VideoGame/{{EXAPUNKS}}''
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37-> ''We're the light in your screens, we're the lead in your veins\
38Then you wake from your dreams so we can sell them again\
39In the light, we distract with the shiny and new\
40So you’re blind to the fact that the product is you\
41So let your brain dance and replay the dream\
42But don't drown in the data stream\
43'Cause we see where you are and we see where you go\
44'Cause we know what you own and we own what you know''
45-->-- '''Music/TheStupendium''', "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bem_d49NBLc THE DATA STREAM | Cyberpunk 2077 Song feat. Cami-Cat!]]"

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