An example is the post-apocalyptic / cyberpunk series Appleseed by Masamune Shirow, in which hyperstructures dominate the skyline of the city Olympus.

At the start of the game, it has survived over 10 years in complete isolation from the rest of the world and is an example of an arcology in cyberpunk genre.

One of the cyberpunk genre's prototype characters is Case, from Gibson's Neuromancer.

This emphasis on the misfits and the malcontents is the " punk " component of cyberpunk.

The science-fiction editor Gardner Dozois is generally acknowledged as the person who popularized the use of the term " cyberpunk " as a kind of literature, although Minnesota writer Bruce Bethke coined the term in 1980 for his short story " Cyberpunk ," which was published in the November 1983 issue of Amazing Science Fiction Stories.

William Gibson with his novel Neuromancer ( 1984 ) is likely the most famous writer connected with the term cyberpunk.

For example, Philip K. Dick's works contain recurring themes of social decay, artificial intelligence, paranoia, and blurred lines between objective and subjective realities, and the influential cyberpunk movie Blade Runner is based on one of his books.

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.

The setting of Ghost in the Shell is cyberpunk or postcyberpunk.

Giger is often referred to in pop culture, especially in science fiction and cyberpunk.

The tone of his books is generally more irreverent and less self-serious than that of previous cyberpunk novels, notably those of William Gibson.

Neuromancer is a 1984 novel by William Gibson, a seminal work in the cyberpunk genre and the first winner of the science-fiction " triple crown " — the Nebula Award, the Philip K. Dick Award, and the Hugo Award.

It is often discussed along with William Gibson's novel Neuromancer as initiating the cyberpunk genre.

His argument is illustrated by reference to the 1960s New Wave and the emergence of ' cyberpunk ' in the 1980s.

The Shadowrun world is cross-genre, incorporating elements of both cyberpunk and urban fantasy.

Released in 1994, the game is set aboard the fictional Citadel Station in a cyberpunk vision of 2072.

Based on the ideas in the book Future Shock by Alvin Toffler, the novel shows a dystopian early 21st century America dominated by computer networks, and is considered by some critics to be an early ancestor of the " cyberpunk " genre.

* In the 1993 cyberpunk PC roleplaying game Bloodnet, the Plaza Hotel is host to a debauched private gathering called the Hellfire Club, having U. S. senators, the mayor and even vampires as members.

William Ford Gibson ( born March 17, 1948 ) is an American-Canadian speculative fiction novelist who has been called the " noir prophet " of the cyberpunk subgenre.

Cyberspace, the world's computer systems considered as an interconnected whole, can be thought of as a virtual reality ; for instance, it is portrayed as such in the cyberpunk fiction of William Gibson and others.

Dark Angel is an American biopunk / cyberpunk science fiction television series created by James Cameron and Charles H. Eglee.

Nell's father, Bud, is presented as an archetypal cyberpunk character.

* Aleph, a super high capacity storage device, is a plot element in the cyberpunk novel Mona Lisa Overdrive by William Gibson

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.

Cyberpunk 2020 is a cyberpunk role-playing game written by Mike Pondsmith and published by R. Talsorian Games.

APL ( named after the book A Programming Language ) is an interactive array-oriented language and integrated development environment, which is available from a number of commercial and noncommercial vendors and for most computer platforms .< ref >

Underlying this vision is a new conception of justice, coined accommodative justice by Hosseini, a new approach towards cosmopolitanism ( transversal cosmopolitanism ), a new mode of activist knowledge ( accommodative consciousness ), and a new format of solidarity, interactive solidarity.

BBC Red Button is a branding used for digital interactive television services provided by the BBC, and broadcast in the United Kingdom.

The misconception that Lisp is a purely interpreted language is most likely because Lisp environments provide an interactive prompt and that code is compiled one-by-one, in an incremental way.

For these reasons, rasterization is usually the approach of choice when interactive rendering is required ; however, the pixel-by-pixel approach can often produce higher-quality images and is more versatile because it does not depend on as many assumptions about the image as rasterization.

CPAN. pm is mainly an interactive shell which can be used to search for, download, and install distributions.

An interactive shell called < tt > cpan </ tt > is also provided in the Perl core, and is the usual way of running CPAN. pm.

The term time-sharing is no longer commonly used, having been replaced by simply multitasking, and by the advent of personal computers and workstations rather than shared interactive systems.

Live coding ( sometimes known as ' interactive programming ', ' on-the-fly programming ', ' just in time programming ') is the name given to the process of writing software in realtime as part of a performance.

Although the present-day, loose use of the term " cyberspace " no longer implies or suggests immersion in a virtual reality, current technology allows the integration of a number of capabilities ( sensors, signals, connections, transmissions, processors, and controllers ) sufficient to generate a virtual interactive experience that is accessible regardless of a geographic location.

The environment of Duke Nukem 3D is highly destructible and interactive ; most props can be destroyed by the player.

Dynamic HTML, or DHTML, is an umbrella term for a collection of technologies used together to create interactive and animated web sites by using a combination of a static markup language ( such as HTML ), a client-side scripting language ( such as JavaScript ), a presentation definition language ( such as CSS ), and the Document Object Model.

The use of technologies such as PowerPoint and interactive whiteboard is capturing the attention of students in the classroom.

It is likely that ELIZA was also on the system where Will Crowther created Colossal Cave ( Adventure ), the 1975 game that spawned the interactive fiction genre.

Instructional design, the systematic design of materials, activities and interactive environments for learning, is broadly informed by educational psychology theories and research.

As Montag leaves for work, he finally tells Mildred ( who is watching an interactive soap opera on the " parlor walls " -- three enormous, floor-to-ceiling television screens ) that she overdosed on sleeping pills.

" An alternative term suggested " as a more descriptive name for the discipline " is interactive decision theory.

Instead they use the strange term " interactive multimedia ": this is four syllables longer, and does not express the idea of extending hypertext.

( At the College Park, Maryland, USA, store there is an interactive digital display which tells the history of a tavern which used to exist where the store is currently located.