Of Japan's influence on the genre, William Gibson said, " Modern Japan simply was cyberpunk.

American counterculture exponents like William S. Burroughs ( whose literary influence on Gibson and cyberpunk in general is widely acknowledged ) and Timothy Leary were among the first to extoll the potential of computers and computer networks for individual empowerment.

Known for their seminal influence on electronic music, the group helped pioneer electronic genres such as electropop / technopop, synthpop, cyberpunk music, ambient house, and electronica.

Common themes in cyberpunk include advances in information technology and especially the Internet, visually abstracted as cyberspace, artificial intelligence and prosthetics and post-democratic societal control where corporations have more influence than governments.

Stephenson attempts to establish The Diamond Age as a " postcyberpunk " book by killing this character early on, while acknowledging the influence of the cyberpunk genre.

Hopper's influence reached the Japanese animation world in the dark cyberpunk thriller Texhnolyze.

One of the collaborations, " Mona Lisa Overdrive ", is titled in reference to the cyberpunk novel of the same name by William Gibson, a major influence on the directors.

" The Abolition of Work " was a significant influence on futurist and design critic Bruce Sterling, who at the time was a leading cyberpunk science fiction author and called it " one of the seminal underground documents of the 1980s ".

Along with Mondo 2000, Boing Boing was an influence in the development of the cyberpunk subculture.

The 1995 cyberpunk film Ghost in the Shell, a strong influence on The Matrix, features opening credits similar to the digital rain.

The later manuscripts of the Triads are partly derivative from Geoffrey of Monmouth and later continental traditions, but the earliest ones show no such influence and are usually agreed to refer to pre-existing Welsh traditions.

While admitting the influence of extraliterary experience on every poet, he argues that " the poet in a poet " is inspired to write by reading another poet's poetry and will tend to produce work that is derivative of existing poetry, and, therefore, weak.

A derivative of Ghetto house made popular in recent years which is characterized by heavy use of Ghetto House elements at 140bpm, with heavy influence from popular American rap / hiphop.

Although largely derivative, Gerard's popularity can be attributed to his evocation of plants and places in Elizabethan England and to the clear influence of gardens and gardening on this work.

In south Germany and some other countries of Europe, the spiritual and artistic influence of Rome remained strong, so most music continued to be derivative of Italian models.

Under the influence of Geoffrey, derivative figures appeared in a number of later works.

But then bands like The Kinks started to make it, and they were probably the biggest influence on us – they were certainly a huge influence on Pete, and he wrote ' I Can't Explain ', not as a direct copy, but certainly it's very derivative of Kinks music.

Just as Hart Crane had little influence on anyone except very reactionary writers -- like Allen Tate, for instance, to whom Valery was the last word in modern poetry and the felicities of an Apollinaire, let alone a Paul Eluard were nonsense -- so Dylan Thomas's influence has been slight indeed.

The best approach, he figured, was to try to influence young people like the high schoolers he and his wife serve as advisors at First Presbyterian Church.

Malinowski and Radcliffe-Brown's influence stemmed from the fact that they, like Boas, actively trained students and aggressively built up institutions that furthered their programmatic ambitions.

Throughout the early twentieth century, boxers struggled to achieve legitimacy, aided by the influence of promoters like Tex Rickard and the popularity of great champions from John L. Sullivan to Jack Dempsey.

Although the form declined in popularity towards the end of the 18th century its influence can be seen in light operas like that of Gilbert and Sullivan's early works like The Sorcerer as well as in the modern musical.

However, Edwards states that more of the changes suggested by High Anglicans were implemented ( though by no means all ) and Spurr comments that ( except in the case of the Ordinal ) the suggestions of the ' Laudians ' ( Cosin and Matthew Wren ) were not taken up possibly due to the influence of moderates like Sanderson and Reynolds.

He was posthumously awarded a Doctor of Fine Arts degree by the University of Florida for his influence on American popular music and in its " People in America " radio series about influential people in American history, the Voice of America radio service paid tribute to him, describing how " his influence was so widespread that it is hard to imagine what rock and roll would have sounded like without him.

Backbenchers can, however, exert their influence by sitting in parliamentary committees, like the Public Accounts Committee or the National Defence Committee.

Smaller parties like the Quebec nationalist Bloc Québécois and the Green Party of Canada can exert their own influence over the political process.

Unlike earlier texts like Recipes for Fifty-Two Ailments, which was excavated in the 1970s from a tomb that had been sealed in 168 BCE, the Inner Canon rejected the influence of spirits and the use of magic.

Jazz was an important influence in Alston's work and socila life, representing itself in other works like Jazz ( 1950 ) and Harlem at Night.

Dances like " Odra Magadhi ", which after decades long debate, has been traced to present day Mithila, Orissa region's dance form of Odissi ( Orissi ), indicate influence of dances in cultural interactions between different regions.

Dada is a named influence and reference of various anti-art and political and cultural movements including the Situationist International and culture jamming groups like the Cacophony Society.

Often the reason is genetic ( mutation or chromosome abnormality ), but there can be environmental influence ( like teratogens ) or stochastic events.

In the East, Confucius ( 551-479 ), of the State of Lu, was China's most influential ancient philosopher, whose educational outlook continues to influence the societies of China and neighbours like Korea, Japan and Vietnam.

His expressions like " ontology of sensability " when referring to the body, indicate influence by phenomenological thought.

Although humans exist and operate within ecosystems, their cumulative effects are large enough to influence external factors like climate.

Although humans exist and operate within ecosystems, their cumulative effects are large enough to influence external factors like climate.

The Vietnamese emperors also gave this title to their ancestors who were lords or influence figures in the previous dynasty like the Chinese emperors.

* Exhalation, especially where the velocity of exhaled air can influence the harmonic generating properties of a vibrating body, such as the reed of a musical instrument like the saxophone

Catalan influence can be seen in the cuisine here with dishes like brandade made from a purée of dried cod wrapped in mangold leaves.

Some artists have also been linked to neo-Nazism, although most black metal fans and most prominent black metal artists shun Nazism and oppose its influence on the black metal subculture.

The influence of the gothic novel on the goth subculture can be seen in numerous examples of the subculture's poetry and music, though this influence sometimes came second hand, through the popular imagery of horror films and television.

Film poster for The Hunger ( 1983 film ) | The Hunger, a key influence in the early days of the goth subculture.

Many black metallers reject Nazi ideology and oppose its influence on the black metal subculture.

As well as being central to the creation of hardcore punk, they were innovators in the first wave of American West Coast punk rock and are considered a key influence on punk subculture in the United States and abroad.

The leather subculture later became more mainstream in the British 1960s due to the influence of rock musicians such as The Rolling Stones and The Who, and television performers such as Honor Blackman and Diana Rigg in The Avengers, who wore full body leather catsuits and full limb-covering leather and latex gloves and boots.

The influence and popularity of the style waned in the 1960s, but during the late 1970s and early 1980s, rockabilly enjoyed a major revival of popularity that has endured to the present, often within a rockabilly subculture.

The Jesus People in America also had particular influence, and began to create their own musical subculture, sometimes referred to as Jesus music — essentially hippie-style music with biblical lyrics.

As the Jamaican diaspora grew in the United Kingdom during the 1960s, rude boy music and fashion, as well as the gang mentality, became a strong influence on the skinhead subculture.

Gothabilly style is a tongue-in-cheek play on 1950s-inspired kitsch aesthetics of the rockabilly subculture, but with a dark gothic influence, blending retro rock and roll fashions with the somber features of goth.

A History of Surf Culture by Drew Kampion ; The Encyclopedia of Surfing by Matt Warshaw ; Riding Giants documentary film by Stacy Peralta-to name just three ) as being the single main influence to bring surfing and the surfing subculture into the American mainstream.

The Situationist International ( SI ) was allegedly an early influence on the punk subculture in the United Kingdom.

In the Congo Free State ( now known as the Democratic Republic of the Congo ), a youth subculture known as the Bills flourished, taking Western movies and cowboys as their main influence.

The rocker subculture came about due to factors such as: the end of post-war rationing in the UK, a general rise in prosperity for working class youths, the recent availability of credit and financing for young people, the influence of American popular music and films, the construction of race track-like arterial roads around British cities, the development of transport cafes and a peak in British motorcycle engineering.

He is sometimes referred to as the " Mod Father " or " Mod God ", either way his influence has left a mark on the Mod subculture to this day.

Trojan skinheads, influenced by traditional 1960s skinhead culture, are named after Trojan Records, to stress the influence of black Jamaican music and the rude boy style to the skinhead subculture.

The biker style has influenced the look of other sub-cultures such as punk, heavy metal, gay leather subculture and cybergoth fashion, and, initially as an American subculture, has had an international influence.

In 1985, after years of associating with peers of all races, Bob Heick began writing and distributing leaflets, mostly from a nationalist anti-communist stance, in response to the increasing leftist influence in the local punk subculture.

In a Queer Time and Place: Transgender Bodies, Subcultural Lives, looks at queer subculture and proposes a conception of time and space independent of the influence of normative heterosexual / familial lifestyle.

Gyaru subculture is still a large influence in Japan's fashion economy with gyaru brands branching out and becoming more accessible in rural areas.

Writers and critics have noted the video and the song's influence in bringing an underground subculture into mainstream popular culture through the postmodern nature of her power and influence, as well as the way in which it followed a new trend in which dance music enjoyed widespread popularity.