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  • long time we haven't seen anything really cyberpunk in media. Is the genre dying ?

  • @RebelAdmiral Well there was Human Revolution. That and almost all modern Sci Fi has cyberpunk elements.

    Still, not very much specifically written as cyberpunk it seems.

  • Its not the end of the world. But you can see it from here.

  • @breeeegs n1 i love deus ex

  • its a beautiful game

  • A moving tribute to a great genre. Well done.

  • The awesome Voice of this track...WHO sing this song???

  • One day, technology and nature will coincide peacefully.

  • @SocialLocust It can and must. There is nothing wrong with green technology. Technology does not have to be filthy and it does not have to destroy the planet. I hope we can move towards the greener technologies and away from corporatism and greed.

  • when she sang my goosebumps all fired up... this is LEGENDARY...!

  • Primitivists are gonna be pissed when they see this, lol fuck them i'd want to jump into this society if i could.

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  • To kill someone you only need a stone or your muscles, technology is not what kill us, simply we are who decide. Now is a truth that technology gives big solutions as big problems. Just imagine the solutions and problems that would provides spy nanobots, cyborgs, invisibility, laser communication, smart robots, nuclear reactors, automotives, antibiotics, manufactured organs. All that will gives more complexity to civilization what becomes it harder to maintain. I dare to say more problems

  • This is just mesmerizing. I'm working out ideas for a possible dystopian story and I needed these images and this music for a little boost.

  • Ashes to ashes. Dust to dust. As the world turns it turns to rust.

  • im i relative big cyberpunk fan... so i clicked this and was quiete surprised of the soundtrack... Jin roh belongs to my favourite animes (although its not cyberpunkish as you mention..) one of the few animes i own.....

  • WHAT IS THIS SONG?!

  • @Danjoww Jin Roh - OST ~ Grace Omega ~

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  • maybe you can watch the Rene Menn Art, around here there is a video with another beautiful song, i love this video too!

  • каждый раз когда смотрю кайфую.

  • Where did you get the pictures from?

  • Spend 2 minutes looking at the world and then think "Star Trek future or Bladerunner future?". It's very hard to see where the Star Trek future is going to come from! At the very least, we may have to go through a Balderunner period to get to the Star Trek future, but I personally doubt it!

  • Its so beautifull!!! I wanna live there, the perfect society for me.

  • @MagnitudePerson Me too, it just feels nice.

  • I find it beautiful actually, it looks cool and interesting im really into the dystopian look, anyways the look isnt the problem it can look dystopain and be cool without being dystopian we allready live in a dystopian world, so its not the "grity looks" thats the problem is not Technology, Technology is just a tool it cant harm shit, a table cant harm you, its the political system(idealogy) that changes how everything shuold be used. The capitalist imperialist colonialist/zionist system is bad.

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  • Amazaing video, but this is a future i personally hope never comes...

    thats just what I think :)

  • @serpentphoenix why?

  • @taki255 well because when you've grown up in a city like this which has an almost completely artificial enviorment, with no natural green and full of lights and technology ,and then move to a country that has hills and trees and animals and lakes (etc) you wish you had never lived in the city , rather grown up in the countryside. I don't know about you but thats just my experience haha.

  • @serpentphoenix i think it's boring to live in a country side

  • @serpentphoenix Don't assume you know everyone thats lived in the countryside. I also find it boring.

  • love it..like neon cyber

  • it basically tells us tht the buildings we have are tall enaugh :D 

  • who the fuck would dilsike this? i mean seriously... how could you be agitated by this

  • My one and only true dream to have been able to live in a future setting with giant metropolises around the world and space travel such as... just about every SciFi Movie

  • Shadowrun/deus EX all really good cyberpunk games they need to make more of it

  • 2:30 you can see a pyramid.. the illuminati conquered the future world D:

  • I dunno... Definitely has the High Tech, but many of the pictures look like enlightened masses. Only about a third were "low life" enough to really feel cyberpunk for me. Also, the music took me out of it. It was too new age, too new. Too clean. Just this man's opinion, but it feels like regular old sci-fi to me.

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  • in reminds me Ghost in the shell so much :D

  • Japan and possibly South Korea are definitely cyber punk. 

  • Don't you people think that we already live in a cyberpunk era? My point is: technology is already at hand of every middle class people, nearly everyone have at least a computer, internet, a plasma TV and all that kind of comfort related machines... but there still people straving to death in our streets and outside our privileged countries.

  • @omarsattack And I don't think our species will ever change. = ( 

  • @CosmicGrounds well, I'd like to think there is still hope, it surely would take lots of centuries and I'll die without seeing it, but I think some day humanity will finally found a balanced way to live for everyone with no exceptions.

  • @omarsattack I used to believe such a thing would be possible. That sounds as much of a pipe dream as equality. There will always be an individual, or group that will desire to conquer, manipulate, destroy, etc other people.

  • @CosmicGrounds yeah, but history has shown that the democracy and freedom has succeed in several times, it is true that there still exists so many places in the world with low life, but I belive that they are a bit less in each century, and someday most people of the world will have a good way for living. I just think the world has got really better since 1000 years ago, maybe we will achieve important improvements in the next 1000 years.

  • @omarsattack It's b/c "we" live in privileged environments -- the world is much darker than you think. Wars are no longer fought with many guns and blood, but law and media.

  • is anyone can help me the website cyberpunk.liber-mundi

    it not working.. Why is that? Please anyone can tell me?

  • i can't get into cyberpunk 2021 website.. do anyone have same problem? I keep getting error and wonder why?

  • Hey! Where Can I get those pictures in HD? PLEASE!!!

  • Poster, thanks you

  • It's been a year or so since I first watched this video, and I'm glad to say that since then, the ethereal essence of cyberpunk conveyed within finally drove me to sit down and write that story and/or novel I've been itching to work on for the past three years. It's like a form of instant-inspiration that drives away writer's block.

    So again, thanks for uploading this. I'm totally in love with this genre these days. :)

  • beautiful art !!!

  • THIS IS BEAUTIFUL!

  • Those skyscrapers look almost identical to those of Dubai.

  • I don't want a future like this, hell no! Look what we have done to our home, destroying it each day...technology, despite its good achievments, it also brings chaos and destruction. A world too high tech like this means that all natural life will be ceased and humanity won't have emotions!

  • @Jow45metal

    youre not right

  • @Jow45metal

    i mean, following your logic - some neanderthalensis or astrolopithecus have had more emotions then you?

  • Awesome video. Thanks to it I discovered the beautiful anime "Jin-Roh" and its OST. Now that I watch again these pictures... still the same old emotions.

    I love cyberpunk.

  • Nice vid, I enjoy the scrolling and the trance like music...

  • We will never have such a future, because we will destroy us someday in a nuclear world war

  • @twoidrug We won't have a future like that because the middle class in the industrialisd world is shrinking. We are to lazy to reproduce and there is no future without children. You can't build such a future with the 3rd world only.

  • @digitalfol

    The 3rd world is capable of being the next 1st world, Asia is growing, look at India, Pakistan, UAE, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines, Saudi Arabia, even Iraq, all those countries are growing and are doing their best to catch up with the rest of the world. Central, west and south Africa however, will remain as they are.

  • jc, what song is this!!?????

  • This video is so amazing, can`t stop watching it again and again... Nice job

  • What a primitive age we live in !!

  • We are almost there. If only the world economy was not in distress and the incompetent humans who control the world would halt the exhausting of their wealth on war and barring their minds with ignorance we might have had this level of technology by now... Also the relaxation from this video has temporarily caused me to communicate formally and utilize an expanded vocabulary.

  • What a good video.

  • Thank you for uploading to youtube the low quality one, it's allot better than people who upload video's that take forever to load.

    Awesome sound <3

  • All days I' wait one world in this mode.

  • I fell the same of you..I hope that one day all of our world change in this mode

  • is this a pc game and were can i buy it

  • Awersome!

  • Sounds like Gabriela Robin (Yoko Kanno) is singing the vocals here. Nice!

  • who wrote that song ? :)

  • Great video, beautiful song. Everytime i watch it (ussually in the morning) I sit down calmly for few minutes, look outside the window and think about life etc. It just makes me realize how beautiful world and people sorround us, which gives a reason why we should care about each other and our common good. thx a lot

  • @BangOBee0 Wow Genau das was ich auch dachte als ich das hier gehört habe. Irgendwie muss ich immer Lächeln wenn ich den song höre aber er macht auch nachdenklich.

    Sorry for the German aswer but I was not sure if i could convey the mening of the words i wanted to say ... because my English is a littel bit rusty...

  • @BangOBee0 lol

  • @BangOBee0 this pussy shit the soundtrack to the movie Hardrive is way better

  • I listen to Yoko Kanno's song Inner Universe while watching this video! :D

  • Nice composition!

    Thank you so very much!

  • if this is the future then i love it!!!

  • personally i rekon itll become a wasteland

    but yeah this type of futire interests me...certain elements i would want to happen but others i really really would not

  • So Good So chillfull!!!!

  • Amazing beautiful music/vid 5***** thanks very much my friend for the share:)))) WE LOVE THIS....:)

  • Epic* Lovely FeeL

  • dream production!!!

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  • brilliant

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  • GREAT VIDEO!

    No more words...

  • I think some of the artwork in this video is too sci fi to be considered cyberpunk. But that's just me

  • sOME

    YOUR RIGHT. i AGREE.

  • I've posted a video response for my opinions, I'd appreciate it if everyone gave it a look-see! Thanks!

  • oh, thank you, I live with this in my mind all the time, and I feel I want future but unable to reach it... I dream of Jakarta, Osaka, Seoul... exoterism, spirituality, katanas and cyberpunk as urban style...

  • Oh and for the record, I'm not saying Cyberpunk is all depressio shit.

    Some quick points: Cyberpunk is still awesome. Cyberpunk is not about dress-code, anyone can be cyberpunk with the right MINDSET, not the right clothes. If you dress cyberpunk without the mindset you'll just be one of those Matrix fags.

    And Will Gibson (Godfather of the genre) has gone on record saying we've already reached a cyberpunk age, especially in metropolitan Japan, a place he vacations frequently in.

  • i know that place looks fucking weird

    i notice places that could be called cyberpunk in present day....even things and ideas. were somewhat getting there

  • yeah, ever seen Tokyo?

  • not in reality no....

  • this is fucking fantastic

  • This music and video is beautiful but it sounds too happy to be Cyberpunk.

    Cyberpunk is Edge! Cyberpunk is Grit! Cyberpunk cuts like a laser saw! ...........

  • Too happy for Cyberpunk?

    Try again, listen again. To me it sounds quite somber and sad... a "Look what we've done to this planet, we fucking destroyed it" kind of ballad.

    And that's what I've always personally seen Cyberpunk as. A long hard introspective look into the cold hard consequences of milking the planet dry for more products, more shit we don't need, more pollution and more "progress".

    Cyberpunk shows how hollow our materialism is. It shows how "happy" our future will be if continue.

  • Well in that case you should have used a darker track to illustrate your point even better, right?

  • darker doesnt always mean more depressing. i listen to harsh dark music genres, very dancable and energetic....this slow, sombre music suits the video well

  • NO not depressing just harsher and punkish would have been nice.

  • but the video is about having a depressing track to illustrate the potential fuck up of our race....

  • @Xegethra I came up with a word for "potential fuck up of our race": protopostapocalipsy.

  • @Xegethra to me that is what cyberpunk ideal is, an oppressed atmosphere or vibe and still I Freaking Love It!

  • @Xegethra agree, most cyberpunk movies/anime displays a dystopian society.

    I'm sure you were thinking Blade Runner, Ghost in a shell, even Judge Dredd

  • @Xegethra How is this a fuck up? This is a GOOD future. We can only hope we get this advanced.

  • @catscatscatz

    cyberpunk is about living in deformed, dystopian society, filled with drugs and all kind of illegal activities. it's about how technology can destroy human race. definitely not good future

  • @Neomex000

    Cyberpunk isn't just about dystopia. It's not about them at all. It's about being on the edge of both. All that technology, but we still use it for the same old things. That's cyberpunk. Eden being dangled in front of us, but our own hubris and vanity keeping us down. It's about people being people, in short.

  • @harlequin2262 You could suggest we already live in a Cyberpunk world, now. 'Course, the point of Cyberpunk is to imply that we are moving toward one, constantly, with our use and abuse of technology. With all the tech out there, we almost live in a state of pre-cyberpunk...Though, that's open to interpretation, no?

    Cyberpunk; the use and abuse of technology. Where transhumanism tells us how technology frees us...cyberpunk tells us how it controls us.

    AI in cyberpunk often embody that, no?

  • @Theswordundrawn

    Well, yes and no. For a start, Cyberpunk DOES show that technology doesn't nessasarily mean freedom, but control is a bit strong. Think about all the texts where the net/technology released people, and gave them different options. I think cyberpunks more saying that while technology changes, people won't. Or rather, the human condition won't.

    Our present world's quite cyberpunk in certain respects, but it's more about contrasts, whereas true cyberpunk tends to integrate.

  • @harlequin2262 Well, yes, really, then. The point in Cyberpunk is often that, while technology gives an illusion of control, that technology itself serves as a method of control, that humans cannot over-come. The point then is, for the hero, or something related to the hero, to break free of that control. Neuromancer has the classic example of Case being forced to help Wintermute transcend its limits, for example.

    Further though, in Cyberpunk, a common theme is people changing, for better or not

  • @Theswordundrawn

    Woa. Molly didn't change. Corto regressed. The Finn's the same guy he ever was. Rivera's the same guy to the end. Most of the cast of Blade Runner are basically unchanged by the end, if a little more enlightened about their natures.

    None of the Cyberpunk heroes break free. That's part of it. Case just goes right on back to what he was doing before. Same with Molly, apparently. They're not any freeer, they've just moved about their cage a bit.

  • @harlequin2262 Good point. But what about other Cyberpunk works, such as Lawmower man? The guy becomes a God, by casting himself into the stream of information that is the internet.

    Ghost in the Shell had some of this too; questioning what is human, and the Puppet Master himself stated a need to merge and become something more, in order to be completed.

    Case does, sort of break-free. He's back to what he did before, but he went through hell to move on in a philosophical sense.

  • @Theswordundrawn

    It's interesting that you mentioned Wintermute, though. The creature that was compelled by it's nature to combine? He likened himself to a trout swimming upriver. He can't control it, he just wants it. And in the end, he did. If anything, that's a submission to his nature, even if that did come through a degree of break and enter. Whatsisname says in Count Zero about Finn that even before the Gods turned up, there were those that were on their path anyway.

  • @harlequin2262 True. But once he becomes the Mute/Mancer entity, it was implied he had become something transcendant, and searches for other beings like himself (as he mentions to Case before leaving). Furthermore, the Dixie Flatline is implied to have become such a thing at the end (the mention of inhuman laughter).

    A lot of Cyberpunk is about technology controlling humanity and forcing them to digress. The question of transhumanism in Cyberpunk challenges that.

  • @Theswordundrawn

    Trancendant, but ended up locked down into various human symbols, and scattered again as the various loa, and the fact that he could trancend was only because he was designed from the ground up to be withstrained. "EMP shotguns wired to the head" and all. He didn't transcend so much as reach the ground floor.

    The Dixie Flatline regressed. He couldn't even remember things before he got the RAM upgrade. He was a fixed entity, that wanted to die. Or die again.

  • @harlequin2262

    Not wholly true, in that once he reached his combined stage, it's implied he/it is no longer bound by anything. To the point that it leaves the Earth altogether, having nothing left to confine it in any physical sense. The point of the "EMP shotgun" was to prevent any AI from ever achieving it's fullest potential, which could effectively become godlike.

    Yes, but by the end, its implied that Dixie joined Mute/Mancer in some manner, due to his unknown fate and the odd laugh.

  • @Theswordundrawn

    "Where's Dixie? What have you done with the Flatline?' `McCoy Pauley has his wish,' the boy said, and smiled. "

    He wanted to die. That's a pretty clear end for the flatline.

    " `I'm not Wintermute now.' `So what are you.' He drank from the flask, feeling nothing. `I'm the matrix, Case.' Case laughed. `Where's that get you?' `Nowhere. Everywhere. I'm the sum total of the works, the

    whole show.'"

    He just merged with the net. Still part of it.

  • @harlequin2262 Debatable; he only told CASE he wanted to be erased. His exact deal with Wintermute was left unsaid. The laughter at the end of the book was meant to imply Dixie merged with Wintermute, or something similar. Which would still mean he got his wish; he would be erased in a sense, as he became something totally different.

    Even so, Wintermute still could use the net as a from of trascendency. A lot of cyberpunk is based on this same idea. Because the net is described as "limitless".

  • @Theswordundrawn

    The laugh was the dead characters. Dixie, Rivera, Linda. The image of case with them is a bit of a puzzler, though. Remember that Linda never had anything to do with the matrix, or technology for that matter. It's cyberpunk as fuck, but I'm not certain it's trancendance per say. Remember how deep Wintermute got inside Case's head.

  • @harlequin2262 Actually, you could argue Linda DID have a lot to do with the Matrix, in the sense that her persona was constantly used by Neuromancer. In this regard, the scene would make sense, but then, why would Rivera be there, as he had no connection to the Matrix? Your idea seems to be right, though, about the dead characters, but I don't know how Rivera would be related...unless you count his holograms?

  • @harlequin2262 Also; Cyberpunk/Transhumanism (the latter almost certainly could qualify with Wintermute's final stage) often defines the idea of transcendence via use of merging with the Net. Lawnmower Man pretty much did this as the major plot element.

    The idea is to do with the vastness of Cyberspace, and the way it functions. If Wintermute had full control of the net, and therefore, as the book says about the Net; "Experienced by billions of users daily", would he not, then, have elevated?

  • @Theswordundrawn

    He said he became the entire thing, wether than means controlling it or not, particularly in light of Count Zero... It's cyberpunky because he was so constrained before, and in certain respects he was programmed to merge anyway. So in a sense he didn't transcend his programming so much as he fulfilled it.

    Lawnmower man has a guy getting better and worse at the same time. And a major part of the plot is that our basic humanness will always intrude upon this sort of thing.

  • @Theswordundrawn

    In Neuromancer there's a very very even blend of control and freedom. I don't think it's true to say that it's about control when just as often is about breaking that control. Technology locked case into the meat, but just as easily freed him from it. Both ways, see? Balance, and living on various metaphorical edges, that's cyberpunk.

    Transhumanism and Cyberpunk bump into one another, but have different perspectives and ideas about basically everything.

  • @harlequin2262 Arne't we basically agreeing on certain points now? Anyway, the balance is not often very definite, in such cases where the society the technology exists within often being on the boiling point, due to the abuse and corruption, the sheer controlling force that technology brings to society within the settings.

    If there is a certain balance, it tends to be undermined by the setting itself.

    So, like I said about transhumanism and Cyberpunk being opposites before, no?

  • @catscatscatz good future? for technologies?... the cyberphunk culture is focused on the huge advances on technology but at the cost of some rights, social status or whatever it is derived from that... do you still want that future?

  • @catscatscatz We might kinda need trees and stuff, though. You know, to breathe. Industrialism hasn't really been all that good for us. Cyberpunk is about thriving in a fucked up society, but it does not mean we want the society to be that way.

  • yeah cyberpunk is rather violent than depressive

    my opinion !

  • one word.........

    T E C H N O F O B I C

    materalism rules 4 ever,

    we have to change in 100%, the biologic life to a techno-life.

    nature have a lot of mistakes like genetic issues, slow bio-evolution, lack of adaptability. etc.

  • Well hey, I'm not saying I'm tek-phobic. In fact alot of my three-monitor-screen computer is controlled by voice command. I also run the shadowrun sprite comic over at Drunkduck, which is done 100% digitally with photoshop & MSpaint. I fucking love cyberpunk.

    But read into the roots of it a little more. You realize William Gibson invented cyberpunk because he originally knew jackshit about PC's and the internet and began writing a techno horror story about the "frightening power" of technology?

  • I mean, some writers called it "Dystopic Scifi" instead of cyberpunk for awhile. Think about it. Cyberpunk is always grim n' dark. It always focuses on the effects of TOO MUCH technology on society TOO FAST. Before we can adapt and use it responsibly. It was BECAUSE Will Gib knew nada about computers that we was allowed to let his imagination go wild, based on what he was told hackers were capable of, and come up with the, AT THE TIME, farfetched idea's of the "Matrix", neuromancer, etc.

  • yeah but when the power goes machines will be fucked

  • indeed, it looks cool though. but what we did to get there, how we changed ourselves and things, not realising were messing shit up too much, and ultimatly inintentionally scrweing ourselves over thinking its progress until its too late and slaps us in the face....thats suck

    however i do not think we will ever get that far, i think well pretty much die out before all that anyway

  • this is why i want to be frozen

  • citys would look like this if earth was over crowded by people

  • infinite% awesome!!!!

    if there is something called infinity in stars, i would rate it! ^^

    GREAT FEELING + GREAT VID!!! ^^

    5^* =D

  • omg O_O great vid,thx for posting this :)

  • i agree with ErowsRLD if it weren't for Niburu witch will kill all electronics but 150 years at most im guessing

  • Please don't make predictions if you can't even type right ;-)

  • but the style depends on the architect and the society the race is based around

  • once the USA economy goes down this fall and the 3 world war comes and goes give it about 150 years and well be looking like sec 23

  • reminds me of the movie metropolis

  • AMAZING! it is really beautiful

  • in this moment i found a name/community for a feeling, i thought i would be alone with.

  • You gotta think, it'll take money to become the cyberpunk nation we want, and were about to fall under andother depression...

    It's just something to ponder on...

  • To the poster of this video: Yup, I felt it too;) Awesome compilation of imagery and the soundtrack just fits perfectly. Cyberpunk is our future!! :)

  • Love CyberPunk ^^ it just feels good

  • This is our future... :)

  • To get pictures, try 4chan.

  • Those pictures are so cool!

    Where did you get them?

  • thank you for this video and song combo...william gibson, the father of cyberpunk, would be proud

  • if he's the father...phillip k. dick most be the granddaddy then.

  • where did you get such amazing images?

  • Damn i was memorized with the visual art

  • Very, very nice. Cyberpunk just rocks, I love it.

  • I love cyberpunk! Yay!

  • 1000 years to future and this could look like this

  • that sounds about right.

  • thank you: ) I respect your reply :)

  • less than 1000 i'll bet!

    more like 100?

  • well... Like 500? i think that could be correct time.

    would be so beautifull to see this own eyes :(

  • ooo, i dunno- exponential growth of technology ;)

  • Actually I'm willing to bet that by 2040 our society will look like this

  • I dont thinkso it could be so soon. :O we it ddoesnt make sence :P

  • Hope so i really hope so

  • You really think in roughly 30 years, society will change this much? Try 300.

    We still use fossil fuels and concrete in the year 2009.

  • but we had using fossif fuels in only 1 1/2 century.

    like Carl Sagan said, human techonoly can be match with a value of 2.6 in a 0 - 5 rank.

    when we match 5, we can use the all-universe energy

  • cybergoths mistook the point of cyberpunk....they only exist in fashion , that's why the word cybergoth is not in my repertoire...i bet not a single person of those have even read atleast 1 of william gibson's pieces.

  • Amazing atmosphere! Really cool video!

  • Sounds Almost Like Pink Floyd

  • you don't have to dress a certain way to be cyberpunk

  • The Cybergoths and the Cyberpunks are cool. They just dress up like if we are in the future. I think they like to be the ones who are caught up on modern technology. I think the reason why Cybergoth and Cyberpunk are not popular because the Clothing & accessories are way too Expensive. With today's economy it may seem very hard to become a Cybergoth or Cyberpunk.