History: CP manifesto ver 3.0 2007

This is a sheet to design a new Cyberpunk manifesto to meet current/actual facts of 2007+

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Feel free to add/change items, as this manifesto is made by CP people, not only one person, but a group of people. The more people contribute, the better it gets. But keep in mind, that this manifesto will be the CyberPunk? Bible for the next 20 years. So before changing things, try to evaluate and discuss with other people who want to create this, so it stays a bit organised.

Cyberpunk manifesto ver 3.0 - Date 2007 Created by the current Cyberpunk people of 2007 AD

Introduction:

Hail to the ordinary nerds, who don't walk the streets often , being 24 hours a day online , freaking, hacking , tweaking, etc. Being cyberpunk, being other than normal people Seeing what normal people just do not see. The digital life in biological senses of the mainframe , defined as the global world we life in. Labeled as nerd, weirdos, punks, freaks.... Technology freaks, that understand all systems, labeled as freaks/weirdos by society. Knowing more as common people do, hacking systems for fun, digitaly overloading their mind with good information....etc.... People like us, loving tech and having more friends online as in their own town/city, searching and learning technology to use it in other ways as it was meant to be, searching other means of system liberation, fighting against corporate opression and sensorship, freedom of information wars....

Long life the Cybero-revolution, long live the techno-anarchists, long live the hackers and the crackers....

Technology:

Advancements in technology keeps us busy, keeping up-to-date with latest tech, almost like old CyberPunk? (pre 2000) turns real in 21th century terms, like 2006 and beyond. Bio-implants, VR wars, techno-information warfare. Future wars not fought with armees, but with computer systems. Current technology makes us Cyberpunks adapt to it, and even (like always) think one step beyond. Thinking 20 years in the future, creating new things with current technology , inventing other means to use a device, changing the original senses of an aparatus, to create a new complex electronic system, like hacking a phone, to turn it into a infra-red TV remote.

Politics:
The war against global big time corporations, like Unliver, Shell, Micro-soft and others, still rages on. Opression by corporations using the puppet government as their worktool , to keep the people dumb, is not an option for cyberpunks. We are anarchist/revolutionair anti-system people. We think for ourselves, and do not need some big guy/woman have to tell us what we may think. Fighting corporations, by hacking their systems, spreading viruses, mind-probes, DDOS attacks are now common in 2007. The things described in books like Neuromancer and other CP-novels wrote (as being SF in those 80s/90s days), became todays reality. 2006+ years (21th century) gets more digital, and so do the governments, by creating Identification protocols to control their humans/people. Cyberpunks still rage war against ID protocols, by becoming unknown, nerds, with big brains, hacking things, etc.

Sociology:
Cyberpunks tend to be individuals that do not fit in any system or group. The so called nerd, lonely boy/girl, the weirdo, freak, etc. But cyberpunks are mostly very intelligent people, who see, what others do not see. Sometimes sharing their knowledge to a select group, often being cursed/hated by system folks, who do not understand our people. Having more friends on the digital internet/ultranet as in their own town/city. Sharing more knowledge digitaly on the net-highway, as can possible be spoking on streets. Spending more time to get more technological knowledge/information as to socialize is common in Cyberpunk lifestyle.

History:
Cyberpunks change their ideas, music, fashion, etc. from time to time. In the 80s, they had more synth oriented music, more old-fashion tech, etc. Now in 21th century, we have the global broadband internet, Satelite mobile/GSM phones, VR, etc. We adapt to the tech , and the tech adapts to us. We are symbiotics, both biological as technological. Our Cyberpunk movement advances as time goes by. We learn, and we grow more powerfull. As we are the soldiers of the technology frontier, not known by the system, but still alive. Cyberpunk being coined by William Gibson, that once was Science Fiction, is now turning into reality. When CP fans, get their hands on current tech, their will be a huge rise of CP fans worldwide, who realize, that CP is not only a fairytale, but also hi-tech current time movement that goes beyond the imagination of the original writers of CyberPunk? novels.