We (ED. science fiction writers) are sort of
charlatans: we come up with a few ideas and we make a living out of that.
When I wrote "Neuromancer", I would have never imagined AIDS
and the collapse of the USSR. We never get the future right.
I always thought that USSR was this big winter bear that would
always exist. And look at what happened. In 1993 I wrote an
afterword for the Hungarian version of "Neuromancer". I wrote that
nothing lives forever, and that it's time that the winds of democracy
blow over the East. But now, after the arrival of people like
Zhirinowsky, I have second thoughts again and I fear for them.
Now you also write "geo-anthropological" reports...
That's right. I did a portrait of Singapore for "Wired Magazine".
That place gave me the creeps.
You are considered the true father of cyberpunk. What do you think
of how this word has spread in the world and has gained new meanings ?
It depends whether you believe in such a thing. "Cyberpunk" has
become a historical word, one of these words which you use to
describe a definite period of time. The risk is that it could suddenly
become outdated, passe. Now it is a very fashionable thing to say:
wearing cyberpunk outfit or behaving cyberpunk has become hip:
you see it on MTV.
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