Leary

I enjoyed this article. It was my favorite out of all the ones we have read so far. I totally agree with Leary and his opinion on cyberpunks. Cyberpunks really are the new role models for the new millennium. I think that people like cybepunks are going to change the world even more than they already have. After I read this article I realized that I am a cyberpunk because I mirror the definition of a cyberpunk; someone who uses all available data-input to think for myself. I believe that everyone in our generation has a little bit of cyberpunk in them, as long as they think for themselves. I like how Leary talks about the cyberpunk counterculture in the Soviet Union. What once was a strong bureaucratic controlling government is now being changed to somewhat of a self government because of cyberpunks. I would have never pictured Christopher Columbus or Mark Twain as a cyberpunks. I guess it is misleading to call them that because the word cyberpunk makes me think of computers but the word cyberpunks has many different meanings from Greek and Roman culture. The evolution of countercultures was very interesting. I liked to see how the moods, attitudes, intellectual viewpoint brain-tech, politics and cosmic views have changed over the years until now the “New Breed”. I think that cyberpunks will continue to make an impact on the world as time goes on.