BEAR's

[cyberpunk is a genre of science fiction that literally imagines our future. Identify some of the associations between (written or cinematic) cyberpunk and technological innovation in the popular imagination]---BY BEAR, Kwong Hoi Leung

In this essay, I have used google.com and the yahoo.com to search the relate document. In the search process, the most difficult is hard to discover the well-known author's article. But in the result of searching, it has many website which is about the cyberpunk, but related topic paper are less, and some foreign author's paper must pay money only then may watch.
This essay topic is: [cyberpunk is a genre of science fiction that literally imagines our future. Identify some of the associations between (written or cinematic) cyberpunk and technological innovation in the popular imagination.]. I have looked for six websites articles, the most early article which published on 1948, it took the comparison until the recent years paper.
In the website [Mapping the Body in Cyberpunk Fiction and Science][2] which written by Mischa Peters, it defined what is cyberpunk. [...Cyberpunk, for those who do not know the genre, is a sub-genre of science fiction. It is used to describe writers like William Gibson, Bruce Sterling, Lewis Shiner, Pat Cadigan, Neal Stephenson and Greg Bear (among others). It often sketches a dark vision of the future: in this future information technology has penetrated every aspect of a society where corporate, multinational companies and the 'mafia' seem to be ruling, and which is populated by a range of (post-)human forms].
In recently years, story or movie which relate to cyberpunk style which always appears that [sketches a dark vision of the future], such as Matrix,Robot Cop or other.
In Matrix, the computers control the world, and a part of human try to fight back. In Matrix, most of the human are roiling as the battery to provide power for computer. This paper is suggested that the human is complex in cyberpunk fiction is very common. In this paper, it had talk about the charter in the cyberpunk movie how they mapping the bodies with technological. The re-make human is simple, or the human without re-make operation can not be alive in cyberpunk fiction. But, there is less a statement to talk about the humanist. The old form of humanist is seeking for the nature body, the cyberpunk fiction is opposite to the moral.
In another website [Cyberpunk in the Nineties][3] is written by Bruce Sterling support this point. Bruce think that the group of Cheap Truth blind to follow to write the cyberpunk fiction, and the cyberpunk story a dark vision, the human in the fiction is re-build ed, it is the crash of the moral. But, the re-build of human body is not create in the cyberpunk fiction, but the cyberpunk is a genre of science fiction, it seems to prove the tech. is not humanity.
[This "anti-humanist" conviction in cyberpunk is not simply some literary stunt to outrage the bourgeoisie; this is an objective fact about culture in the late twentieth century. Cyberpunk didn't invent this situation; it just reflects it .][3].
Also, Bruce think that the cyberpunk fiction is outdated. It is because in 50's, the technological is not well at that time, people had great expectation for it. It was a fresh category of fiction, it made crash in it. But in the late 80's, the technological developed and the people started to think the technological crash the moral and would be calamity.
[SF's struggle for quality was indeed old news, except to Cheap Truth, whose writers were simply too young and parochial to have caught on. But the cultural terrain had changed, and that made a lot of difference. Honest "technological literacy" in the 50's was exhilarating but disquieting - but in the high-tech 80's, "technological literacy" meant outright ecstasy and dread. Cyberpunk was weird, which obscured the basic simplicity of its theory- and- practice. ][3]
Another definition of cyberpunk which write by Illusivemind ,[Cyberpunk is about expressing (often dark) ideas about human nature, technology and their respective combination in the near future.], the negative image of the cyberpunk is permeated in the people mind, such as the feeling of cyberpunk is cool, the corruption, the dirty city, and the machine and human integrate, those are opposite to the moral in now-days. It makes the human to wake and introspection.[ In a cyberpunks near-future, technology runs rampant, and usually manipulates most societal interactions. Dystopian near futures are very common, but so are futures where the impacts of specific technologies are played out in a world only slightly different from the present. Sacred societal boundaries are often crossed with regularity. Often the earth is severely damaged. Crime and drug use are often key supporting themes .][4]
Mike Featherstone and Roger Burrow's book[Cyberspace/Cyberbodies/Cyberpunk: cultures of technological embodiment][1] quoted Norbert Wiene idea. The cybernetics was conceived as a communications network function, in 40's, it is a new study topic of the automata, whatever it is metal or in the flesh. The automata is impressions, the people was imaginably that the automata's the incoming message and the action if the outgoing message process. The people in 40's was joy to see the technological in the cyberspace, but there was no cyberpunk fiction in that time.
For my views, the cyberpunk fiction is a fibbing story which create by a writer. The story forces on the technology and the future. As Bruce ideas, the Cyberpunk story is against to the moral, such as the re-building body. And the Cyberpunks world is negative, it let the reader in bad impression. But in fact, the technology always against to the moral, and the world is towards to the "cyberpunk" world! For example, the power shortage is the fact and problem, and the pollution problem affect to our earth. If there is no another resource to replace and solve the pollution, there will be a reality "cyberpunk" world in future. The writer is foresee the problem in now-days world. Also, the new technology always against to the moral, for example the "human cloning", it is also against to the bible and the moral.
In 40's, the people were happy to see the technology improvement, beside the technology was outdated at that time, the topic of the story is fresh! Now-days the cyberpunk story is too many! It is not attractive anymore.
In the Michael Heim views, there is no reality in the cyberspace. The people living in the fake world- Internet. The cyberspace is imagination and create by people that has no wall to block each country and community. The Internet is a communication tools. [ If the people who make simulations inevitably incorporate their own perceptions and beliefs, loading cyberspace with their prejudices as well as their insights, who should build the cyberworld? Should multiple users at any point be free to shape the qualities and dimensions of cyber entities? Should artistic users roam freely, programming and directing their own unique cyber cinemas that provide escape from the mundane world? Or does fantasy cease where the economics of the virtual workplace begins? But why be satisfied with a single virtual world? Why not several? Must we pledge allegiance to a single reality? Perhaps worlds should be layered like onion skins, realities within realities, or be loosely linked like neighborhoods, permitting free aesthetic pleasure to coexist with the task-oriented business world. Does the meaning of "reality"--and the keen existential edge of experience--weaken as it stretches over many virtual worlds?][5]
The cyberpunk fiction is genre of the science fiction, and those of the technology is not reality. But now-days, the Internet create a cyberspace, it build a fibbing space for the user to make their own community. They can earn the money or buy the stuff on it. For my own view, the trade on the Internet is not real, and the world of the cyberspace is not reality. The Internet is a tools to let the people communication between different community, but the community is not really exist. The really exist is the server only. And those of the web or cyberspace are the program or symbol in a computer, we can't call the symbol to be reality.
William Gibson, on his writing say that it is because he know how to use the Internet, it affect the sales of his book. It is because the first book is create by himself. The reader think it is fresh. But the second, it is because he know how to use the Internet, he started to read other author's story. It make him into the "Cheap Truth".
[I thought I was immune to the Net. Then I got bitten by eBay.][5].
References
[1]
Mike Featherstone, Roger Burrows."Cyberspace/Cyberbodies/Cyberpunk: cultures of technological embodiment".1996. Retrieved 19, March 2007,
http://books.google.com/books?id=wjtm5I1XUd8C&dq=Cyberpunk&hl=zh-TW
[2]Mischa Peters . " Mapping the Body in Cyberpunk Fiction and Science".September 29 2000. Retrieved 21,March 2007,http://www.let.uu.nl/~Mischa.Peters/personal/bologna/paper.html
[3]Sterling, Bruce. " Cyberpunk in the Nineties". Retrieved 23,March 2007,http://www.streettech.com/bcp/BCPtext/Manifestos/CPInThe90s.html
[4] Illusivemind. "What is Cyberpunk?". Retrieved 17, March, 2007
http://www.cyberpunkreview.com/what-is-cyberpunk/
[5]Michael Heim."The Erotic Ontology of Cyberspace". Retrieved 17, March, 2007
http://project.cyberpunk.ru/idb/erotic_ontology_of_cyberspace.html
[6]
William Gibson. "My Obsession". Retrieved 21, March, 2007
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/7.01/ebay.html?pg=1&topic=&topic_set=