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Eighteen months in the making, and 1,400+ hours of research, writing, recording, AI-upscaling, animating, sourcing and editing later, the anticipated Part 3 of my cyberpunk documentary miniseries is here!

THE EVOLUTION OF CYBERPUNK covers novels, comics, animation, television, film, games, philosophy, hacking, VR, simulation theory and The Matrix phenomenon. Learn about the second trilogy from cyberpunk author William Gibson: Virtual Light, Idoru and All Tomorrow's Parties, and discover the brilliant satire and criticism of modern America in Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash.

Jack in to cyberspace with the origins of hacker culture, its impact on us during the advent of the internet, and how that informed our worldview of the information superhighway, and films such as The Net, Hackers and Johnny Mnemonic. What inspired us to invest so much into virtual reality, from the Virtual Boy, to injecting VR cameos into movies and shows like Serial Experiments Lain, Wild Palms, The Lawnmower Man, and others? And how did monumental video games such as System Shock, System Shock 2 and Bioforge influence us as players?

For the send-off, how did philosophy and existentialism surmount in such treasures as Philip K. Dick's novels and research, eXistenZ, Dark City, The Thirteenth Floor, and most notably of all, The Matrix? In summary, we will try to answer the eternal question, "Are we living in a computer simulation?".

0:00 Intro
2:58 Opening Credits
3:53 GOING VIRAL
5:09 Snow Crash
12:34 Virtual Light
15:12 Idoru
16:59 All Tomorrow's Parties
19:07 Transmetropolitan
20:05 Marvel 2099
20:58 Batman Beyond
22:00 Aeon Flux
24:10 HACK THE PLANET
25:18 Phreaking
27:16 The origins of the Internet
27:32 1995 - The Year Computers Went Viral
30:39 Real-Life Hackers
32:19 Sneakers
33:44 The Net
35:18 Hackers
39:01 Johnny Mnemonic
45:42 New Rose Hotel
47:18 Serial Experiments Lain
50:17 HACKING HUMANITY
50:29 Gattaca
54:41 Bioforge
55:48 System Shock
58:43 System Shock 2
1:04:14 Heavy Metal & Movie Soundtracks
1:06:36 Industrial & Electronic Music Movement
1:10:49 Daft Punk
1:12:07 Billy Idol's Cyberpunk Album
1:14:06 REALITY, REPLICATED
1:16:01 Virtual Boy
1:16:58 VR in TV and Film
1:17:48 VR-5
1:18:50 TekWar
1:19:48 The Lawnmower Man
1:22:53 Wild Palms
1:25:52 Virtuosity
1:27:47 Strange Days
1:31:50 Nirvana (1997)
1:34:55 The X-Files
1:37:30 LIVING IN A DREAM WORLD
1:42:15 Simulacra and Simulation
1:44:17 Dark City
1:48:15 The Thirteenth Floor & Simulacron 3
1:51:49 eXistenZ
1:54:52 THE MATRIX PHENOMENON
1:56:47 Story
2:00:11 Production
2:01:47 Soundtrack
2:02:39 Inspirations
2:04:28 The Invisibles comparisons
2:05:12 Dark City comparisons
2:06:45 Philosophy
2:13:25 Simulation Theory / Nick Bostrom
2:15:30 Outro / Credits

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CREDITS

Additional writing by Cult of the Cyber Skull
https://www.youtube.com/c/CultoftheCyberSkull

Voiceover editing/mastering by Erik Peabody
http://www.vikingguitar.com/

Original 3D animation for opening credits by Bojechto
https://www.artstation.com/bojechto

William Gibson quotes voiced by Jake Phillips
https://www.fiverr.com/jacobphillip116

Additional voiceovers by Jay Myers
https://www.fiverr.com/jaymyers1564

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MASTER SOURCE/CREDITS DOCUMENT
(all music, footage and sources used in the making of this video):
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1cXU5c9NEnA30nzD60YWwIozvbYRK6a5_QDYzrF9aZzs/edit?usp=sharing

Opening credits music:
The Bad Dreamers - "Part Time God"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSyRn8iBkvY
Licensed through FiXT Radium https://www.fixtradium.com/
https://fixtneon.bandcamp.com/track/part-time-god

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