Media – Active Wirehead http://www.activewirehead.com Cyberpunk Web Magazine: Tech - Video Games - Sport - Entertainment Fri, 01 Jul 2016 21:50:35 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.5.14 Mr. Robot http://www.activewirehead.com/mr-robot/ Tue, 28 Jul 2015 08:01:00 +0000 http://www.activewirehead.com/?p=2016 MR. ROBOT Mr Robot follows Elliot (Rami Malek, “The Pacific”), a young programmer who works as a cyber-security engineer by day and as a vigilante hacker by night.  Elliot finds himself at a crossroads when the mysterious leader (Christian Slater, “The Adderall Diaries”) of an underground hacker group recruits him to destroy the firm he […]

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]]> Virtual Revolution – The Movie http://www.activewirehead.com/virtual-revolution-the-movie/ Thu, 02 Jul 2015 22:31:00 +0000 http://www.activewirehead.com/?p=1998 Virtual Revolution – The Movie Virtual Revolution is a sci-fi feature, which could be described as cyberpunk. An interesting definition of cyberpunk is: ‘High Tech, Low Life’. Most cyberpunk stories are dystopias set in our future, and they tend to raise questions that our societies will have to deal with in several years, decades, or […]

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]]> Humans TV series http://www.activewirehead.com/humans-tv-series/ Fri, 26 Jun 2015 17:26:00 +0000 http://www.activewirehead.com/?p=1980 Made of our image, out of our control you already heard and probably watched “Real Humans” aka Äkta människor a 2012 Swedish science fiction series set in an alternate near-future version of Sweden where consumer-level humanoid robot workers and servants are widespread. Now you have the British version with “Humans” (Very original name compared to the Swedish series ;p) Let’s […]

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]]> High Tech Low Life Documentary http://www.activewirehead.com/high-tech-low-life-documentary/ Fri, 26 Jun 2015 06:32:00 +0000 http://www.activewirehead.com/?p=1966 In 2006, there were roughly 110 million Internet users in China and the first official phase of China’s censorship barrier, commonly referred to as “The Great Firewall,” had been evolving for almost a decade and was finally completed. By 2008, the number jumped to 298 million users and rumors of young resourceful Chinese netizens circumventing […]

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]]> Drugs & Wires http://www.activewirehead.com/drugs-wires/ Fri, 27 Mar 2015 07:32:00 +0000 http://www.activewirehead.com/?p=1811   Drugs and Wires … is a ongoing (2015) webcomic created by Cryoclaire (original premise, art, writing, drug research) and Io Black (writing, editing, plot development). It doubles up as a sequel to Dreamspace, a trilogy of motion comics published between 2013 and 2014. The year is 1995. Grunge and alt-rock dominate the airwaves. Floppy disks are […]

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]]> Silent War http://www.activewirehead.com/silent-war/ Thu, 26 Mar 2015 06:57:00 +0000 http://www.activewirehead.com/?p=1814 If you still want to read some cyberpunk manga in the next years  support their creators. Today 2 Singaporean artists need our help to fund their manga and provide us some great stories!   Story Silent War is a cyberpunk spy manga series set in the year 2030 in an alternate earth, where most national armed forces […]

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]]> Die Antwoord http://www.activewirehead.com/die-antwoord/ Tue, 24 Mar 2015 17:49:00 +0000 http://www.activewirehead.com/?p=1816 Imagine a party-gang or a Yo-gang from Cyberpunk 2020? Yup just to enrage Ninja, don’t ask “Are these guys for real?” People are unconscious, and you have to use your art as a shock machine to wake them up. Some people are too far gone. They’ll just keep asking, “Is it real? Is it real?” […]

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]]> Transhumanism http://www.activewirehead.com/transhumanism/ Mon, 16 Mar 2015 09:52:00 +0000 http://www.activewirehead.com/?p=1757 Transhumanism – beyond human Noun – Pronunciation: /tranzˈhjuːmənɪzm/ Definition: The belief or theory that the human race can evolve beyond its current physical and mental limitations, especially by means of science and technology. People interested in the transhumanism movement have the desire to live longer, healthier and become more intelligent. They want to engineer the human evolution by themselves and enable more control of […]

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]]> Are we living in a dystopian world already? http://www.activewirehead.com/are-we-leaving-in-a-dystopian-world-already/ Wed, 25 Feb 2015 09:19:00 +0000 http://www.activewirehead.com/?p=1694 Are we living in a dystopian world already? hen you’re ready to rise up, you’ll rise up. All the power you need is in your hands. Now look around you, our financial systems have been hijacked by a generation of thieves. Whilst your working harder and harder for less and less – the game is […]

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]]> >WHAT IF CYBERPUNK?_ http://www.activewirehead.com/what-if-cyberpunk_/ Tue, 24 Feb 2015 04:49:00 +0000 http://www.activewirehead.com/?p=1665 The future is already here but it’s just not very evenly distributed. —William Gibson In the early ‘80s, a new genre of science fiction appeared. A genre emancipated from the old utopian vision of his predecessors, prospecting on an ultra-technological dark and raw future without goals or ideals or heroes: the cyberpunk genre. After the shock of Ridley […]

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