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   4 October 2026

   What Might Cyberpunk AI Really Look Like?

   As we cross the threshold into the era of true machine intelligence and replace fiction with reality, what does the cyberpunk ethos have to offer and how might it shape our future (again)?

The prior-art timeline

138 primary sources across 8 eras, from cybernetics to machine intelligence. Read the whole canon.

1. Era 0 · 1948–1974 · 22 entries

   Ground

   cybernetics meets the counterculture

2. Era 1 · 1975–1982 · 30 entries

   Proto-cyberpunk

   the term exists before the label

3. Era 2 · 1983–1986 · 30 entries

   The term & the wave

4. Era 3 · 1987–1991 · 20 entries

   Cyberculture & cryptography

5. Era 4 · 1992–1996 · 18 entries

   Cypherpunks, Wired, the Declaration

6. Era 5 · 1997–2004 · 7 entries

   Network culture & the critique

7. Era 6 · 2005–2015 · 6 entries

   The cypherpunk payoff

8. Era 7 · 2016–2026 · 5 entries

   AI