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Rudy's Blog. I’m in my home town Louisville, Kentucky, to give a talk at the Idea. Festival 2. 01. 7. I spoke on the morning of Wednesday, Sept 2. Here’s a panorama of the audience, shot hastily by me from the stage.

Click for hi- res (but slightly blurry) version. The final draft of the text and images for my talk is below. My performance differed slighlty from the draft, as I don’t read my talks from a script, and I react to whatever the live audience seems to be picking up on. Working the room, getting laughs, like stand- up. The slides are online in a PDF here—the slides are just the same as the images in this blog post, only higher- res. Maybe by the end of October, I’ll link to a podcast audio recording, which I hope to get from KET TV. Naturally my personal tape recorder turned itself off… KET filmed a video, which at some point should be online as well.

I’m having fun at the Idea. Festival. Nice of them to invite me. And it was a good crowd with interesting questions after the talk. Free dinner tonight at a distillery. Party time![Musician at a Fellini style beach picnic last week. Honk that horn!]==========================“Welcome to Your Cyberpunk Future”Draft of a talk by Rudy Rucker for Idea.

Festival in Louisville, Kentucky, talk given on September 2. Where I’m From. I grew up in Louisville, and I graduated from St.

Xavier high- school in 1. I’m a Catholic. My father Embry was in fact an Episcopal priest at St. Francis in the Fields. But my parents had the idea that St. X had the best science courses.

It’s a good school. But I regret not having gone to high- school with girls. I could have gone to Waggener with my best friend Niles Schoening. He died last year. And my St. X pal Michael Dorris died a few years back.

It’s terrible to see your friends and loved ones go. They’re lost. No backup.

Embry Sr, Nonny, Embry Jr, and Rudy in 1. I left Louisville, and went off to Swarthmore College near Philadelphia, and then I got a Ph. D. in mathematics, and had a career. At this point I’ve published about forty books. Some are popular science books about infinity and about the fourth dimension. But most of my books are science fiction novels. Watch Talk To Me Streaming.

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Literary science fiction. Cyberpunk and transreal. Cyberpunk is about computers merging into our reality—and about us maintaining our individuality in the face of that. Rudy with big brother Embry and his motorcycle in Prospect, Kentucky, in 1. When I was growing up, I was fascinated by the Beat writers Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs. It helped that my cool big brother Embry had a subscription to Evergreen Review, which is where these guys were publishing. In grad school I was a hippie, and the 1.

I was a punk. But at the deepest level I’ll always be a beatnik. Nevertheless I’m a reliable Louisville boy, and a family man, married to my college sweetheart Sylvia for fifty years now, with three children, and five grandchildren. Our children Rudy Jr, Georgia, and Isabel in Lynchburg, Virginia, 1.

Cyberpunk kids! One of fate’s jokes was to have me live the home of the “Moral Majority” while I was helping to found the cyberpunk movement. Being a successful writer doesn’t necessarily pay well, so for most of my life I had a day job. I was a math professor until I was forty, and then the family and I moved to California, and I became a computer science professor. I was faking it, but eventually I knew what I was doing, and then I did some work as a programmer as well.

And now I’ve been retired for a dozen years. All I do these days is write and paint and put things online. What is Cyberpunk? This talk is called, “Welcome to Your Cyberpunk Future.” Your cyberpunk future is here, and you’re in it, and there’s nothing to be scared of. You’re out in the waves, and you can surf. No need to drown. And it’s gonna get gooder.

Back in the day, William Gibson, John Shirley, Bruce Sterling, and I were among the original cyberpunk authors. The word cyberpunk stood for a certain kind of science fiction literature and film, set in the near future. Gibson’s Neuromancer is a modern classic, and everyone’s read it. I’m known for my Ware Tetralogy novels, starting with Software in 1. And Sterling generated more press than any of us—with his speeches, novels, and journalism. I co- wrote nine stories with Bruce.

He can be annoying. A true punk. But the stories came out great. Transreal Cyberpunk, a collection of stories by Bruce and Rudy. We self- published it last year, and rand a Kickstarter campaign to fund it. Cyberpunk publishing.

Transreal” means writing SF stories that are autobiographical, or in some way reminiscent of the author’s life. The word cyberpunk isn’t all that well- known. People aren’t sure if it’s good or bad. The strait- laced and repressive forces in our society might reflexively say cyberpunk is bad. But I’m telling you that cyberpunk is good.

Cyberpunk is your friend. Cyberpunk is a key to liberation.

The idea behind cyberpunk is simple. Taking Chance Full Movie In English. Cyberpunk = Cyber + Punk. Cyber refers to two things: to people, and to the world that people live in. That is, cyber is about the merging of humans and robots—and cyber is about the physical world mixing with the virtual world of the internet.

One of my paintings . The Riviera.” In a way, that’s my wife Sylvia and me. How do people merge with machines? In one direction, we have intelligent programs imitating people. And in the other direction we have people enhancing themselves with devices like smart phones. Okay, and what about the cyber merger of physical reality and the internet?

In one direction, we have computers creating visual effects and virtual realities that resemble our world. And in the other direction our daily world is being augmented by the internet.

We spend a lot of time online, and that means the internet is part of the world we walk around in. Watch Skating To New York Full Movie. Graffiti art at Ocean Beach in San Francisco.

A punk diagrammatic crab. So that’s cyber, now what about punk? In the classic 1.

As Bruce puts it, “We get in there with spray cans and grunge up those pristine walls.” Cyberpunk literature and film break out of the. We leave the worlds of Star Trek and Star Wars—and enter the worlds of Bladerunner and The Terminator and Black Mirror. In the 1. 98. 0s, when the first cyberpunk novels appeared, a lot of SF novels were about, like, hereditary aristocrats who were colonels in the Space Navy. Some of us had barely escaped being drafted and sent to die in Vietnam.

We didn’t want to hear about serving the whims of our so- called leaders. We wanted stories starring people like ourselves.

Misfits, artists, stoners, outlaws, women, gays, and people of color. Not officers and cops and rich people. Punk means countercultural politics. Like, “You’re not my boss. I’m not even listening. I’m doing it my way.”Even simpler, punk means GTF& WA. Give the finger and walk away.

Software and Wetware. Covers of Software in paperback, (Ace.

Avon 1. 98. 7). When I published my novel Software in 1. I learned about the concept of software by reading Scientific American and by doing post- doctoral academic research on mathematical logic and the philosophy of mind at the University of Heidelberg. The idea for the novel seems simple now.

The idea: It should be possible to extract the patterns stored in a person’s brain, and transfer these onto a robot, and the robot will act just like person. By now you’ve seen this happen in about a hundred movies and TV shows, right?

But I was the first one to write about it. In the 1. 98. 0s, “soul as software” was such an unfamiliar way of thinking that it took me a year to figure it out. Wetware in the Japanese and the Italian editions. To make my Software be punk, I made the brain- to- software transfer very gnarly. A gang of scary- funny hillbillies extracted people’s mental software by slicing off the tops of their skulls and eating their brains with cheap steel spoons.

One of them is a robot in disguise, and his stomach analyzes the brain tissue. They were based on some people who stayed at the same crummy motel as us one time.