Elon Musk Doesn't Understand Cyberpunk | 2025 and Sci-Fi

The cyberpunk genre is a long, time-honored genre. Since the early 80s, we've explored sci-fi visions of the future, with low-life and high-tech, with hackers and governments run by rich, unregulated countries: capitalism gone wild.

So, naturally, Elon Musk saw that and went "I wanna do that, but for real!" By comparing Musk's recent technological developments to cyberpunk's greatest stories -- from William Gibson's Neuromancer to Blade Runner to Ghost in the Shell to Robocop, we start to get a sense that Musk might not actually understand the sci-fi he's lifting from.

Credit to ‪@RedBardIsCool‬ for reading the quote at the end!

0:00 The Origin Point of Cyberpunk
2:54 Neuromancer and William Gibson
9:29 Bringing Science Fiction to Life is Dangerous
13:29 Elon Musk is Making Us Roleplay his Sci-Fi Fantasies
19:17 Cyberpunk is Not an Optimistic Future
22:13 How Cyberpunk is Misunderstood
26:13 Cyberpunk and Control
30:03 Cyberpunk and Memory
34:48 Cyberspace and Liberation
37:15 Do You Remember Metaverse?
38:29 The Painful Social Satire of Cyberpunk (and the Businesses That Don’t Get It)
41:39 I am losing my mind over Elon Musk
45:57 I’m Tired of People Obsessing Over Cyber and Missing the Punk
51:17 The Matrix, Trouble and her Friends, and Human Identity in Cyberpunk
56:03 Cyberpunk, Cops, and Transcendence
58:59 Cyberpunk, Body Modification, and Gender
1:01:06 The World is Going Backwards, So We Must Push Forward

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