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* Cyberpunk genre ( and Post-cyberpunk ) is frequently centered on the transitional inter-periods between Type-0 and Type-I status.

While frequently focused on how the concepts of " Transhumanism " and " Singularity " will eventually overcome the problems that have, up until now, been endemic to human nature, Cyberpunk subverts this to describe the Dystopian side about should a civilization " self-destruct " in the process achieving Type-I status.

In such fiction, most current world problems are local in warfare, local in culture, and usually mono-cultural, and theistic ; further aggravated by various groups trying to retain a Type-0 monoculture through existing institutions and opposition to socialism, and others trying to move forward to a Type-I multicultural, global world though subversion, and revolutionary violence.