Cyberpunk [1990] Documentary HD

[@darthmemeious9526]

i remember my father telling me at around 2008-09 as a response of me discovering the Matrix trilogy, he'd say "Sonny, sonny. just a few words, William Gibson: Neuromancer... Essential." and never spoke of it since cause i was like 7 at the time. but later when i was 17 i remembered and googled it. i know own all the books from the sprawl trilogy, and even waited months for burning chrome to be available again.

[@darthmemeious9526]

in burning chrome actually, the story of Red star Winter orbit. i have no idea how. but Gibson managed in a really convincing way to imitate the harsh political enviroment of communist territories. Im from czechia myself and had learned in school about the strict regime here. and the idea of being close enough to borders to catch forbiden telivision is very close to everyone above 40 here, and well why of course if you had an orbital city like Kosmograd. i dont see why everyone wouldnt steal music and movies and then distribute it for personal gain. thats very soviet state harsh conditions trying to make money every way you can.

[@ScuddotWobbrel]

This really is a time capsule. It's both interesting and hilarious at the same time.

[@darylallen2485]

indeed. My $200 budget laptop for giggles has more processing power than any of them could imagine.

[@chocmilk10]

Daryl Allen In 10 years, your $200 laptop will have young kids giggling at your brick computer.

[@Brisius]

Who is watching this in 2024?

[@thecolorcomputer]

It me

[@bedevil1]

No.

[@gabyanto2690]

Me. I'm making a videogame.

[@Brisius]

@@gabyanto2690 great to hear

[@CyberNymph-s7j]

Yup

[@Calvictus360]

Back when Distrust of Authority, Promotion of decentralization, and Freedom on information was hip. Guess the Government won in the end.

[@gimmeehands1]

Sadly so true and heartbreaking.

[@Tuckerslam]

It was never a competition to begin with.

[@hanshandkante5055]

You understood absolutely nothing. Cyberpunk was never about the dangers of the government, it was about the dangers of TECHNOLOGY, MULTI-NATIONAL CORPORATIONS and CAPITALISM. The governments are literally nonexisting in these novels, but multinational corporations control everything and people have lost their humanity to technological gadgets. It warned us 30 years ago about exactly the world we are witnessing today and you STILL don't get it.

[@afterlifexzero1724]

I was high asf watching this in my room last night and the visuals were so dope

[@Mynipplesmychoice]

This is some guy playing around with the effects buttons on his video effects board. Not that cool.

[@harls7317]

Dope

[@dollandine]

Watching a cyberpunk documentary on a copy of a vhs on my iphone in a stinky crowded urban area... I want out!!! now...

[@phantomslim2002]

"Did I lose my power to the hammer, or does that mean I can build a cathedral?"

[@brianobush]

Nice to hear Skinny Puppy tracks in some of the background music, quite apropos.

[@zzygyy]

90s !!!

[@princegobi5992]

Thanks for putting this up!

[@phantomslim2002]

It's also really funny that the VR they had in the early 90s and even before isn't too far from things like Orbus VR and stock VR hangouts we have on consoles today

[@OracleRouge]

Thanks for the share L33T GUY. You said you have more stuff from this era in VHS, did you uploaded it somewhere or will you ?

[@L33TGUY]

Yep, you'll find a few more similar ones in my channel friend =]

[@Viczarratt]

The CGI in this is the absolute gold. ❤

[@skiphoffenflaven8004]

Wow! I was shocked to see Lanier at the end!!

[@RCAvhstape]

12:30 LOL @ that guy. Wonder where he is today.

[@rooster443]

Silence?

[@rahulsikdardjrds]

In Russia hacking ur credit card information

[@RCAvhstape]

@@rahulsikdardjrds Lol

[@No-cc1fq]

Markus from detroit become human?

[@slayerhuh404]

I read some comment a few years ago that said they saw him years after this working IT at some company and he seemed happy. Whether that's true, who knows!

[@KarmicXRestrictions]

"like all movements it has its stars" >cut to LARPers and people who were never relevant

[@wallacelovecraft8942]

This vid is so old school. Like look at those transitions and how they composited some shots. So outdated but so cool. What a time. I still find it odd that william only writes when he is running out of money. Why? What did he do with all of it? Good interviews. Good vid.

[@dragononcrypto4611]

Dude this has a clear copyright, so disrespectful. Only joking. Thanks for sharing, have ripped it :-)

[@godofchaoskhorne5043]

I was about to flame the fuck out of your ass bro hahaha I once tried defending oriaxy in my macro economics class that was a fun time

[@jamesherer2571]

Where can I get one of those retro mind machines?

[@johnnyfusion7735]

I had this on VHS back in the day, but I have no memory how I obtained it. What a wild trip down memory lane.

[@ianedmonds9191]

The sad thing is we have failed as cyberpunks. We lost the war. The Corporates won. I don't have any solutions to offer. I'm sorry. I'm ashamed. Luv and Peace.

[@L33TGUY]

I feel your sentiment brother but there are some light spots: Linux, open source software, Bitcoin, free encryption, P2P, the transparency movement (Wikileaks), and of course whatever you want to define as "social media". The problem is our adversaries are using the same tool chain, and while we've lost some ground I think the great cyberwar of our age is far from over.

[@enjoycapitalism1775]

Ian Edmonds We will win the war, soon, bit coin is just the beginning

[@chnuckierdbeer5361]

Isn't the whole idea, that technology means power? The corporates by now mostly are technology. Very sophisticated technology. Still, you can see them as tools. You can use a hammer, you can use a car, you can use a computer, why shouldn't you be able to use Google. (Meaning Google as a whole.) Of course it's not easy. (Probably never was.) But it's man made, so its man interfaceble. The tools should be out there.

[@johnnyflinn2662]

This Cyberpunk is not dead we're in the age of Cyberpunk

[@bloodaxe5028]

Do you even IPFS bro ?

[@MMCEnsemble]

This is a really cool documentary. Like seeing the younger Gipson lol

[@harvestcanada]

Cyberpunk, will take a very interesting turn. The Beauty of Cyberpunk is it is fiction of the moment. It is the literature of the here and now compressed into nanoseconds.

[@TheNeonParadox]

I'm so happy I clicked on this. Those "hackers" they interviewed in this piece are a try not to cringe challenge on another level. Lol. You could tell the one guy just watched Hackers too many times, and genuinely had no idea what he was talking about.

[@intheeyesofgod9953]

Which doesn’t make sense because this documentary is from 1990? And “Hackers” was released in 1995?

[@AFZ6767]

@@intheeyesofgod9953 I was about to say the same thing lmao

[@kristianrasmussen5495]

just about the greatest docu of all time

[@stupidopinion3379]

10:22 this was sampled in neurozone by chemlab

[@davidszekely1770]

Thanks so much. To me this is treasure :)

[@mythywmyth]

Billy Idol's Cyberpunk was a masterpiece. Who else could have done it? Ahead of its time buttt also right on time. We need the cyber movement to transcend again. Also dont forget Blade Runner took place in 2019. That's a big year coming up.

[@sebastianasaro6791]

Billy Idol's Cyberpunk is super underrated, one of my favorites of his, not a bad track on it

[@burnerzeroone-o8p]

bad news im from the future 2019/20 wasnt so hot

[@KarmicXRestrictions]

i would love to see more of that animation groups stuff!

[@edgeeffect]

You've probably now seen their entire output. ;)

[@phaeton01]

It is vernon Reid, thought I recognised him

[@skiphoffenflaven8004]

Good golly, the Rosen interview “special effects” were so pathetic, hehe! I remember those days so well.

[@apictureoffunction]

They were bad even by the standards of when this was filmed

[@flashkraft]

I was blown away when I first saw this at the age of 18. It looks a bit silly and disjointed in hindsight. However it does capture what everyone was feeling at the time. Computers and the internet was about to change the world but no-one had any idea what form it would take.

[@Codename-B]

9:40 looks like the plot from Hackers.

[@whatworld70]

I have the VHS.

[@edshift]

Epic share. Thx. :-) Luv and Peace.

[@billhorst-kotter5184]

I embraced this back in the day.

[@SidewaysBurnouts]

Remember billy idol did a cyber punk album and said he never read nueromancer. I guess thats why the 90s didnt work out for him. Cool video, bad song.

[@scheddoc]

a lot of these were very accurate, just slightly twisted

[@duppyman7112]

And now kids are useing smart phones that make 1990s tec look like crayons at a art master class...!

[@kbs1212]

Duppy Man Racing Thats not necessarily a good thing, or something to brag about. We’ve lost so much of our freedom. Don’t fool yourself. Your comment is that of a simple minded pleb.

[@JustAVariation]

Is this where the “Mishima Zaibatsu” came from?

[@maxfoth2]

the closing words "mindscrew, we'll be able to have sex through our minds..." lmao

[@Kyberpunkkari]

Nice futuristic graphics. I like!

[@arsnakehert]

lol, I find even the cheesy things in this unironically COOL

[@LxstDecade]

Information wants to be free

[@agenticmark]

love this. my bullshit meter (as a lifelong coder) is going off the hook, but man this is a time travel experience for me. i was the kid the early phreakers inspired!

[@AFZ6767]

bruh this last part about virtual worlds got me wanting to hop back on VR Chat lol

[@headcase2636]

Wonder what the hacker guy who was p sure he wouldn't be in jail much longer once his failsafe started rolling actually had set up lol.

[@torstenjosephkartelmeyer4623]

read his books from the beginning, starting with neuromancer in 1984, when I was 14... Ich wundere mich kaum, das ausser Johnny Mnemonic kein anderes Buch verfilmt wurde, denn viele cyberpunk filme haben ausreichend von ihm geklaut. Man stelle sich vor: Neuromancer würde heutzutage auf die Leinwand gebracht... Matrix wäre ein abklatsch davon... Neben Philip K. Dick, Alan Dean Foster und Philip Jose Farmer hat kaum ein anderer die s/f-kino scene so beeinflusst wie Gibson... Alle vier genannten AUtoren wurden häufig in der s/f filmgeschichte "zitiert"! Von Starwars, über star trek bis hin zu aliens und v.a.m... Empfehlung: lest die Bücher, und staunt, wie früh diese Herren schon ihrer Zeit voraus waren...

[@mauriciog5352]

Torsten Joseph Kartelmeyer own bitcoin?

[@ghostdelay6770]

Fucking excellent. The music section is truly impressive.

[@kabongpope]

Good stuff!

[@acb9896]

34 years later... Nothing has changed. Only your clothes are plastic and all your peripherals are in your handy dandy gizmo that you dont even take a crap without. That and that its not a mystery whether youre being watched. Feel better?

[@noneurbusiness6570]

What's the song that starts at 5:43

[@Tekhnotron]

Hilt - No Crak On Junk St.

[@Floydcheung]

❤‍🔥❤‍🔥❤‍🔥❤‍🔥❤‍🔥

[@SevenDeMagnus]

So cool.

[@viy83]

21:55 = WHAT'S THE BAND NAME PLS ???

[@Tekhnotron]

Manufacture - Armed Forces.

[@viy83]

@@Tekhnotron thanks ;)

[@computer_toucher]

Haha the poser not-even-courier dude at around 8:50 :)

[@X-IMG]

anyone know the song at 46:23? with the sample "jack into the matrix"? (thanks for the upload)

[@Saint.questions]

wondering the same

[@spearPYN]

Gibson's Neuromancer and Cyberpunk 2020 2nd edition RPG from 1990 are still the best... The form has been bastardized, especially recently. Old school cyberpunk still has a certain charm and beauty in it.

[@godofchaoskhorne5043]

It's not bastardized but since we are in many ways more sci fi IRL then in classic sci fi it's basically impossible to write or make Cyberpunk content without either changing it to fit to a more modern narrative or saying fkit it's an alternate universe 2004 and the Soviets still exist

[@kairi8882]

Habia una versión en español por Odysee pero no la encuentro , me ayuda alguien?

[@osooyabun2701]

Imagine in 2024 we still dont have flying cars and hoverboards

[@darthmemeious9526]

16:03 more relevant than ever.

[@dinomujkic1]

The people were Pioneer and if you want to find out about them today. You have to bypass all the cyberpunk game posts that have the same name.

[@Adama_Now]

Watching in 2025 - LOVE IT! If anyone has other internet documentaries I should check out please reply to this comment :)

[@jaysunbodaysun3302]

...able to "virtually" go anywhere...that's the first time that phrase literally meant what it's saying...lol😅

[@Flac_the_Wave]

Around 48:00 a voice says "Jack into the Matrix" But this is 1990, not 1997. EXPLAIN. EXPLAIN!

[@Daknightfury]

The matrix is not just a film

[@guy6411]

The Matrix is considered cyberpunk. the word Matrix been around before that movie had that name

[@neuromancerwilliamgibins5793]

@Hellrazor Television also read hardwired by Walter Jon williams

[@nuryuzlucellat]

Matrix as a cyberpunk term existed before the movie. Also a matrix (plural matrices) is a mathematical term. Also again, The Matrix came out in 1999, not 1997.

[@Verschlungen]

The second sentence in 'Burning Chrome' contains the phrase 'the matrix'. Gibson wrote that story in early 1981. It took the movie-makers almost 20 years to catch up with him. The Matrix, the movie, came out in 1999.

[@ekakirova9682]

No ice

[@vagizz]

Ha! And now stock trading is done by computers and stock brokers are all on xanax!

[@horacegentleman3296]

2 years later and cyberpunks are causing wallstreet hedge funds to lose tens of billions of dollars.

[@caballeroxxxxx]

Could you put the option of subtitles in Spanish?

[@everythingeverywhere-r1c]

why are these hackers so cocky? take down the banking system? more powerful than the government?

[@stockrt]

I think it's the synergy hackers have. Got that? Nod nod, uhu?

[@david_4246]

The Wannacry hack took down the hospital system and was ultimately stopped by a dude like the people portrayed in this video

[@rooster443]

One vs. System, do not falter Cyberpunks. If there's something missing in the equations, is A.I.pocalipse and hackers. P.S. Does anybody notice young Gibson looks just like Otacon?

[@tomlewis2405]

Who invented the matrix term I thought it was the movie but this is way before that

[@basicallyeveryone]

The Matrix is first introduced in the 1976 serial "The Deadly Assassin". "The Deadly Assassin" is the third serial of "Doctor Who". So "Who invented the matrix" is right.

[@cyphermunk889]

william gibson invented the concept and term of "the matrix" in the 80s when he released Neuromancer...william gibson is speaking in this documentary and his face is featured as the still image of the video

[@idokwatcher2062]

13:55 brings to mind the joyful furry hackers exposing heritage foundation fascists the other day

[@Ferreira181]

top

[@NUAGEAPE]

So brilliant in so many ways, and naif too, It totally changes the way you think about softwear, hardwear and data forever. The soundtrack screams.

[@MechanizationStudio]

8:06 oh, vtuber

[@gypsygypsy7185]

If they didint pay this man for the rights of night city is a shame

[@Merdle]

Where have all the white hat heroes gone? If you're out there, please save us from totalitarianism.

[@Utahsaint]

I couldnt make it past the opening scene. This is like watching Maxium Headroom or a Sigue Sigue Sputnik video.

[@BrettCasto]

Neither the term cyberpunk or the genre were created by Gibson. Bethke did that.

[@davidbainbridge1738]

it's ironic how much they all talk about how the net is going the change the world and in the emd ultimately jusy lead to The Donald.

[@BarabasDantioch123]

Neoliberalism, my dude. Clinton, Trump, it don't matter who wins

[@TallicaMan1986]

@@BarabasDantioch123 it's all investors and corporations now.

[@iashub-niggurath7897]

@BossHossGT500 Key term "scumbag signaling". It's what you do by making Trump supporting fart noises on the internet.

[@mthom0516]

How naive this all seems today

[@StevenMichaelCunningham]

♥️♦️♣️♠️🃏🃏 🎲🎲

[@patrickriordan2053]

cicada 3301

[@mheiseus]

🤣 okay “hacker”

[@TurbulenttJuice]

I love how he just describes amphetamines and cocaine as steroids for stockbrokers that’s exactly what they use 😂

[@ShadowHandzz]

Like if you're also here to learn more about the Cyberpunk world before CP2077 is launched in September! Getting it on Google Stadia.

[@leonardog27]

¿Es Cypherpunk o Cyberpunk?

[@SkinnyEastBro]

(edit : i think im in the wrong comment section, but what the heck just read it if u want) This is just my opinion: I think that full blast capitalism is not the answer. if you think about the whole human life since the beginning of history, life tends to evolve towards unification. single cell organisms evolved to multicellular, long story short humans came to be. now what did our ancestors do for their next step of evolution?? they unify by forming communities and villages and they became kingdoms and cities and now countries. what's next for us? the answer is the Hive mind. we can see that the world is going towards this future where the Internet act as the infrastructure/platform and our phones and computers act as the tool to navigate the cyberworld. imagine a society where we are all just brains in a tank and our conscious is living happily in a virtual world, basically its heaven. and in the real world, Artificial Intelligence will mine, fish, farm and produce: resources, chemicals and minerals for our brains daily needs. consciousness from the virtual world can be transferred to a human/machine body if any human intervention in the real world is needed. This or something like this is INEVITABLE unless..... we fail. by fail I mean we went extinct. capitalism is basically the jungle. the best wins, kill or be killed, eat or be eaten. there is not much signs of unity in this system compared to other systems that are currently in use by small amount of countries, which is not good. if capitalism is bad then what's the answer? I do not know.. maybe communism? or maybe both? Yes...BOTH!!!!!! look at China, look how fast it develops? look how rich they are for those of you who are anti-communist look at Singapore. Singapore is a bit communistic. people here are kind of scared to criticize the government. demonstration?? no such thing, never saw. but the streets are so safe that as a girl you can walk around at night without needing to worry of what you wear. so yeah I think a combination between capitalism and communism is the answer. again this is just my opinion.

[@davidbainbridge1738]

its is like all these guys just wanted to believe a too much.

[@TallicaMan1986]

David Bainbridge They were just waaay too early. They're talking about the year 2040.

[@ShadowRegion]

Julian Assange

[@yellowpacman1]

Some of the dreams gay

[@phantomslim2002]

2019 living in a fascist government, where you at?