Week 4 and Tutorial Task

In the week 4 lecture notes for NCT the main focus was Cyberspace, Cybernetics and Cyberpunk.
A quote in The Permanent Campaign by Sidney Blumenthal states "Image-making, no matter how manipulative, doesn't replace reality, it becomes part of it."

Our lives are continually becoming more centralised around technology and social media, most of us spend extensive amounts of time on Facebook, Twitter or YouTube.  There are more and more things we can do on the internet than ever before, there are news websites, internet banking, movie streaming websites, online bookshops, clothing stores.. Basically, if you can think it, it could be on the internet already. One click of a button and you're transported through the invisible Cyberspace and into a world that has become equally as important and influential in our real lives than just in our online lives.

Like a rock being thrown into still water, Cyberspace has been rippling outwards into everyday life and it even influences movie genres such as Cyberpunk, which all have a related theme- a computer/ form of technology has taken over the world, become the most intelligent being on the planet.
It is no wonder that Cyberpunk is unnerving for some, people had gotten used to nice space opera such as Star Wars where there is a utopian view of the world or another planet. Whereas, the dystopian view of Cyberpunk films hits closer to home as we realise that the way technology has advanced in the last 30 years alone, is it possible that some of the ideas in movies such as Blade Runner and Alphaville could come into fruition? All we know is that, yes, cyberspace exists as this cosmic hallucination that we all partake in, in one way or another.

On reflection of prior weeks' topic and content I decided to deactivate my Facebook profile on the 9/8/13. Partly for my own experiment on social inclusion within today's culture, where cyberspace has become a first order reality alongside our real lives.

The tutorial task was to make a timeline on a particular topic: This timeline is about a history of recent Cyberpunk movies.

References:
Blumenthal, S.(1980). The Permanent Campaign: Inside the World of Elite Political Operatives. Boston, Ma. Beacon Press.



Timeline of Cyberpunk films from 1927 to 2006:
I used the website, Timetoast to generate this timetable.

Event Date:	Event Title:	Event Description:
	10th Jan, 1927	Metropolis	Directed by: Fritz Lang
	16th Feb, 1962	La Jetee	Directed by: Chris Marker
	19th Dec, 1971	A Clockwork Orange	Directed by: Stanley Kubrick
	25th May, 1979	Alien	Directed by: Ridley Scott
	25th Jun, 1982	Blade Runner	Directed by: Ridley Scott
	26th Oct, 1984	The Terminator	Directed by: James Cameron
	25th Feb, 1987	Bubblegum Crisis	Directed by: Hiroki Goda, Katsuhito Akiyama, Masami Obari ran until- 30 Jan, 1991
	24th Aug, 1997	Gattaca	Directed by: Andrew Niccol
	31st Mar, 1999	The Matrix	Directed by: The Wachowski Brothers
	6th Dec, 2002	Equilibrium	Directed by: Kurt Wimmer
	15th Mar, 2006	Renaissance	Directed by: Christian Volckman