Techno-Utopia/ Techno-Dystopia: Writing the Future of Cyber-Technology

Cyber-cultures;Virtual Reality;Online Mythology;Cyborg Anthropology;Public Issues Anthropology

Schram, Brian

University of Waterloo

关键词: Cyber-cultures;    Virtual Reality;    Online Mythology;    Cyborg Anthropology;    Public Issues Anthropology;   

Others  :  https://uwspace.uwaterloo.ca/bitstream/10012/9058/1/Schram_Brian.pdf

瑞士|英语

来源: UWSPACE Waterloo Institutional Repository

【 摘 要 】

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.