{"id":20408,"date":"2023-05-21T01:05:36","date_gmt":"2023-05-21T01:05:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/in-the-world-of-cyberpunk-there-is-a-clear-distinction-made-between-software-and-hardware-both-are-crucial-and-both-are-highly-customizable-what-role-does-the-distinction-play-in-the-story\/"},"modified":"2023-05-21T01:05:36","modified_gmt":"2023-05-21T01:05:36","slug":"in-the-world-of-cyberpunk-there-is-a-clear-distinction-made-between-software-and-hardware-both-are-crucial-and-both-are-highly-customizable-what-role-does-the-distinction-play-in-the-story","status":"publish","type":"questions","link":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/in-the-world-of-cyberpunk-there-is-a-clear-distinction-made-between-software-and-hardware-both-are-crucial-and-both-are-highly-customizable-what-role-does-the-distinction-play-in-the-story\/","title":{"rendered":"In the world of cyberpunk, there is a clear distinction made between software and hardware. Both are crucial and both are highly customizable. What role does the distinction play in the story?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px; cursor: auto;\">This distinction, which is so prominent throughout the cyberpunk version of science fiction, is written all over the shared cyberpunk universe. What does this distinction do to our conception of identity and who or what we are? I mean, this question relates to shared obsessions with things such as sexuality and gender, technology and capitalism, and even the more philosophical distinctions between mind and body, flesh and soul? Show me how. You can use any of our cyberpunk selections to demonstrate your point. You can also use the film _Blade Runner_ as an example of cyberpunk. You are not limited to one story or film for this assignment. I do recommend that you use no more than three (3) sources.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This distinction, which is so prominent throughout the cyberpunk version of science fiction, is written all over the shared cyberpunk universe. What does this distinction do to our conception of identity and who or what we are? I mean, this question relates to shared obsessions with things such as sexuality and gender, technology and capitalism, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"disciplines":[186],"paper_types":[],"tagged":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/20408"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/questions"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/20408\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"disciplines","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/disciplines?post=20408"},{"taxonomy":"paper_types","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/paper_types?post=20408"},{"taxonomy":"tagged","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tagged?post=20408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}