{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "\u201880s-90s cyberpunk put a lot of weight on the things that would go on to make the world we live in today\nbut also a lot of...", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/177304864183/", "html": "<p><a href=\"/post/177304700943/\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">kontextmaschine</a>:</p><blockquote>\n<p>\u201880s-90s cyberpunk put a lot of weight on the things that would go on to make the world we live in today</p>\n<p>but also a lot of weight on SF being not a tech hub in its own right but the legal/biz/finance hub of Pacific trade with bicycle couriers as the cutting-edge way to send 300-page deal packets 6 blocks away and 20 floors up</p>\n</blockquote><p>which means that the William Gibson vision of the cyberpunk Bay (Kowloon Walled City-style homeless encampment on the Golden Gate Bridge, representing SF Queen-of-the-Pacific under urban blight)</p><p>AND the successor Neal Stephenson bimbo box burbclave MUD cyberpunk SoCal representing LA Vapid Nowheresville as the new real California authentic American frontier</p><p>both came before even the first late-90s dot.com boom, huh</p>"}