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Subject: Re: TRON is cyberpunk?
Message-ID: <10834@orchid.waterloo.edu>
Date: Fri, 25-Sep-87 09:55:26 EDT
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Posted: Fri Sep 25 09:55:26 1987
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In article <1581@rayssd.RAY.COM> gmp@rayssd.RAY.COM (Gregory CyberPunk-thy-name-is-TRON Paris) writes:
>To start things off:  How can anyone possibly classify TRON as
>cyberpunk?  The whole story takes place in an imaginary world inside a
>computer.  Where does a "futuristic approach" et al come into play?
>One may as well call Dr. Dolittle cyberpunk.
>

A few definitions in order, maybe? Here's one...

CYBERPUNK: 1/ The interaction of electronicly suspended intelligences.

Hmm... that's a good base.  Let's expand a little...

           2/ The expansion of biological awareness into an artificial
              realm capable of granting severe elitism to anyone who 
              suffered through the slang and came away thinking they 
              had a fix on the future.

Just because Disney always puts out stuff with the same feel doesn't
mean we can disqualify it as a reasonable Cyberpunk concept.  Would
you have said the same thing if a reasonable company had put out the
movie? something with a little more violent realism maybe?  It woulda
been a classic!

Future novels come and go, but the Cyberpunk concept hits close to 
home for anyone who can work an 'n' key.  TRON is to cyberpunk
as Manalow is to U2. Everything grows, but let's not get too far 
ahead in our speculation. Or too sure of ourselves.

So I can't spell...


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