Cypherpunk
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A cypherpunk is one who advocates the widespread use of strong cryptography and privacy-enhancing technologies as a means of effecting social and political change. The cypherpunk movement originated i
John Gilmore is one of the founders of the Cypherpunks mailing list, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and Cygnus Solutions. He created the alt.* hierarchy in Usenet and is a major contributor to the GNU Project.
Julian Assange, a well-known cypherpunk who advocates for the use of cryptography to ensure privacy on the Internet
Cyberpunk
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Cyberpunk is a subgenre of science fiction set in a dystopian future. It is characterized by its focus on a combination of "lowlife and high tech". It features a range of futuristic technological and
Cypherpunk
…Cygnus Solutions in the San Francisco Bay Area and was humorously termed cypherpunks by Jude Milhon at one of the first meetings—derived from cipher and cyberpunk. In November 2006, the word was added to the Oxford English Dictionary.The Cypherpunks mailing list was started in 1992, and by 1994 had 700 subscribers…
A screenshot of InSilico, a cyberpunk city hub from Second Life
Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan
Life in Kowloon Walled City has often inspired the dystopian identity in modern media works.
Metropolis (1927) is considered a work of proto-cyberpunk.