Techno-Utopia/ Techno-Dystopia: Writing the Future of Cyber-Technology
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Date
2015-01-13
Authors
Schram, Brian
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University of Waterloo
Abstract
Will cyberspace ever become truly inhabitable, and if so, what kind of political climate will be present there? By investigating emergent discourses surrounding the future of cyber-technology, I reveal how online users are actively engaged in the preemptive literary construction and interpretation of a not yet realized cosmopolitics of virtual spaces. Additionally, I argue that futurism online constitutes the emergence of a novel form of real-time genre fiction intertextually linked to more conventional forms of science fiction that interpenetrate both public and academic discourses and interpret cyberspace as a potential source of either boundless freedom or dystopia.
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Cyber-cultures, Virtual Reality, Online Mythology, Cyborg Anthropology