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From: doug@eris (Doug Merritt)
Newsgroups: alt.cyberpunk
Subject: Re: cyberpunk humor
Keywords: humor, Firesign Theatre, Bozos
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Date: 9 Apr 88 17:34:09 GMT
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In article <11170@ut-sally.UUCP> brad@pheasant.cs.utexas.edu (blumenthal @ home with the armadillos) writes:
> [...] "We're All Bozo's
>on This Bus" by the Firesign Theatre.  It definitely has high-tech
>motiffs (if you call Tenex and MAC Lisp high-tech :-); it includes a
>Big Brother-esque future world; and it has a cowboy-like hero.

What's the definition of cyberpunk, anyway? I had thought that it
included something like Gibson's cyberspace, not just high tech plus
grim surroundings, like Blade Runner.

	Doug Merritt		doug@mica.berkeley.edu (ucbvax!mica!doug)
			or	ucbvax!unisoft!certes!doug