It Still Brings To Mind The Question Of What (if Anything) Can Be Done To Show The Media That 'cyberpunks' Aren't Just A Bunch Of Pimple-faced Geeks Who Sit Around Trying To Break Into Bank Computers Or Whatever.

It Still Brings To Mind The Question Of What (if Anything) Can Be Done To Show The Media That 'cyberpunks' Aren't Just A Bunch Of Pimple-faced Geeks Who Sit Around Trying To Break Into Bank Computers Or Whatever.

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It still brings to mind the question of what (if anything) can be done
to show the media that 'cyberpunks' aren't just a bunch of pimple-faced
geeks who sit around trying to break into bank computers or whatever.
-- James Hartman (phaedrus@flatline.UUCP)

But cyberpunks *are* a bunch of pimple-faced geeks who sit around trying to
break into bank computers or whatever. Re-read _Neuromancer_ and apply the
inverse James Bond transformation to Case and his cohorts. They're all
supposed to be totally out of shape, with their disdain for the `meat'.
-- Peter da Silva (peter@sugar.hackercorp.com)

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