Cyberpunk [1990] Documentary HD 

"Did I lose my power to the hammer, or does that mean I can build a cathedral?"

I was high asf watching this in my room last night and the visuals were so dope

i remember my father telling me at around 2008-09 as a response of me discovering the Matrix trilogy, he'd say "Sonny, sonny. just a few words, William Gibson: Neuromancer... Essential." and never spoke of it since cause i was like 7 at the time. but later when i was 17 i remembered and googled it. i know own all the books from the sprawl trilogy, and even waited months for burning chrome to be available again.

The CGI in this is the absolute gold. ❤

The sad thing is we have failed as cyberpunks. We lost the war. The Corporates won. I don't have any solutions to offer. I'm sorry. I'm ashamed. Luv and Peace.

"like all movements it has its stars" >cut to LARPers and people who were never relevant

This is a really cool documentary. Like seeing the younger Gipson lol

Wow! I was shocked to see Lanier at the end!!

Where can I get one of those retro mind machines?

a lot of these were very accurate, just slightly twisted

Thanks so much. To me this is treasure :)

I embraced this back in the day.

Nice futuristic graphics. I like!

i would love to see more of that animation groups stuff!

the closing words "mindscrew, we'll be able to have sex through our minds..." lmao

10:22 this was sampled in neurozone by chemlab

Epic share. Thx. :-) Luv and Peace.

read his books from the beginning, starting with neuromancer in 1984, when I was 14... Ich wundere mich kaum, das ausser Johnny Mnemonic kein anderes Buch verfilmt wurde, denn viele cyberpunk filme haben ausreichend von ihm geklaut. Man stelle sich vor: Neuromancer würde heutzutage auf die Leinwand gebracht... Matrix wäre ein abklatsch davon... Neben Philip K. Dick, Alan Dean Foster und Philip Jose Farmer hat kaum ein anderer die s/f-kino scene so beeinflusst wie Gibson... Alle vier genannten AUtoren wurden häufig in der s/f filmgeschichte "zitiert"! Von Starwars, über star trek bis hin zu aliens und v.a.m... Empfehlung: lest die Bücher, und staunt, wie früh diese Herren schon ihrer Zeit voraus waren...

love this. my bullshit meter (as a lifelong coder) is going off the hook, but man this is a time travel experience for me. i was the kid the early phreakers inspired!

Information wants to be free

Ha! And now stock trading is done by computers and stock brokers are all on xanax!

Imagine in 2024 we still dont have flying cars and hoverboards

Neither the term cyberpunk or the genre were created by Gibson. Bethke did that.

Could you put the option of subtitles in Spanish?

Like if you're also here to learn more about the Cyberpunk world before CP2077 is launched in September! Getting it on Google Stadia.

I love how he just describes amphetamines and cocaine as steroids for stockbrokers that’s exactly what they use 😂

¿Es Cypherpunk o Cyberpunk?

its is like all these guys just wanted to believe a too much.

Watching a cyberpunk documentary on a copy of a vhs on my iphone in a stinky crowded urban area... I want out!!! now...

This really is a time capsule. It's both interesting and hilarious at the same time.

Nice to hear Skinny Puppy tracks in some of the background music, quite apropos.

Thanks for the share L33T GUY. You said you have more stuff from this era in VHS, did you uploaded it somewhere or will you ?

Dude this has a clear copyright, so disrespectful. Only joking. Thanks for sharing, have ripped it :-)

Back when Distrust of Authority, Promotion of decentralization, and Freedom on information was hip. Guess the Government won in the end.

12:30 LOL @ that guy. Wonder where he is today.

It's also really funny that the VR they had in the early 90s and even before isn't too far from things like Orbus VR and stock VR hangouts we have on consoles today

Cyberpunk, will take a very interesting turn. The Beauty of Cyberpunk is it is fiction of the moment. It is the literature of the here and now compressed into nanoseconds.

This vid is so old school. Like look at those transitions and how they composited some shots. So outdated but so cool. What a time. I still find it odd that william only writes when he is running out of money. Why? What did he do with all of it? Good interviews. Good vid.

Good golly, the Rosen interview “special effects” were so pathetic, hehe! I remember those days so well.

And now kids are useing smart phones that make 1990s tec look like crayons at a art master class...!

Billy Idol's Cyberpunk was a masterpiece. Who else could have done it? Ahead of its time buttt also right on time. We need the cyber movement to transcend again. Also dont forget Blade Runner took place in 2019. That's a big year coming up.

Where have all the white hat heroes gone? If you're out there, please save us from totalitarianism.

lol, I find even the cheesy things in this unironically COOL

why are these hackers so cocky? take down the banking system? more powerful than the government?

Thanks for putting this up!

It is vernon Reid, thought I recognised him

How naive this all seems today

bruh this last part about virtual worlds got me wanting to hop back on VR Chat lol

34 years later... Nothing has changed. Only your clothes are plastic and all your peripherals are in your handy dandy gizmo that you dont even take a crap without. That and that its not a mystery whether youre being watched. Feel better?

I was blown away when I first saw this at the age of 18. It looks a bit silly and disjointed in hindsight. However it does capture what everyone was feeling at the time. Computers and the internet was about to change the world but no-one had any idea what form it would take.

Is this where the “Mishima Zaibatsu” came from?

13:55 brings to mind the joyful furry hackers exposing heritage foundation fascists the other day

The people were Pioneer and if you want to find out about them today. You have to bypass all the cyberpunk game posts that have the same name.

8:06 oh, vtuber

Habia una versión en español por Odysee pero no la encuentro , me ayuda alguien?

🤣 okay “hacker”

Haha the poser not-even-courier dude at around 8:50 :)

anyone know the song at 46:23? with the sample "jack into the matrix"? (thanks for the upload)

Who is watching this in 2024?

Julian Assange

(edit : i think im in the wrong comment section, but what the heck just read it if u want) This is just my opinion: I think that full blast capitalism is not the answer. if you think about the whole human life since the beginning of history, life tends to evolve towards unification. single cell organisms evolved to multicellular, long story short humans came to be. now what did our ancestors do for their next step of evolution?? they unify by forming communities and villages and they became kingdoms and cities and now countries. what's next for us? the answer is the Hive mind. we can see that the world is going towards this future where the Internet act as the infrastructure/platform and our phones and computers act as the tool to navigate the cyberworld. imagine a society where we are all just brains in a tank and our conscious is living happily in a virtual world, basically its heaven. and in the real world, Artificial Intelligence will mine, fish, farm and produce: resources, chemicals and minerals for our brains daily needs. consciousness from the virtual world can be transferred to a human/machine body if any human intervention in the real world is needed. This or something like this is INEVITABLE unless..... we fail. by fail I mean we went extinct. capitalism is basically the jungle. the best wins, kill or be killed, eat or be eaten. there is not much signs of unity in this system compared to other systems that are currently in use by small amount of countries, which is not good. if capitalism is bad then what's the answer? I do not know.. maybe communism? or maybe both? Yes...BOTH!!!!!! look at China, look how fast it develops? look how rich they are for those of you who are anti-communist look at Singapore. Singapore is a bit communistic. people here are kind of scared to criticize the government. demonstration?? no such thing, never saw. but the streets are so safe that as a girl you can walk around at night without needing to worry of what you wear. so yeah I think a combination between capitalism and communism is the answer. again this is just my opinion.

...able to "virtually" go anywhere...that's the first time that phrase literally meant what it's saying...lol😅

I have the VHS.

So brilliant in so many ways, and naif too, It totally changes the way you think about softwear, hardwear and data forever. The soundtrack screams.

Fucking excellent. The music section is truly impressive.

What's the song that starts at 5:43

16:03 more relevant than ever.

it's ironic how much they all talk about how the net is going the change the world and in the emd ultimately jusy lead to The Donald.

Good stuff!

cicada 3301

No ice

So cool.

If they didint pay this man for the rights of night city is a shame

♥️♦️♣️♠️🃏🃏 🎲🎲

One vs. System, do not falter Cyberpunks. If there's something missing in the equations, is A.I.pocalipse and hackers. P.S. Does anybody notice young Gibson looks just like Otacon?

Who invented the matrix term I thought it was the movie but this is way before that

21:55 = WHAT'S THE BAND NAME PLS ???

Gibson's Neuromancer and Cyberpunk 2020 2nd edition RPG from 1990 are still the best... The form has been bastardized, especially recently. Old school cyberpunk still has a certain charm and beauty in it.

I'm so happy I clicked on this. Those "hackers" they interviewed in this piece are a try not to cringe challenge on another level. Lol. You could tell the one guy just watched Hackers too many times, and genuinely had no idea what he was talking about.

2019 living in a fascist government, where you at?

Around 48:00 a voice says "Jack into the Matrix" But this is 1990, not 1997. EXPLAIN. EXPLAIN!

I couldnt make it past the opening scene. This is like watching Maxium Headroom or a Sigue Sigue Sputnik video.

Some of the dreams gay