Cyberpunk Librarians . . .

Cyberpunks use all available data input to think for themselves.

You know who they are.

Every stage of history has produced a name and a heroic legend for the strong, stubborn, creative individual who explores some future frontier, collects and brings back new information, and offers to guide the gene pool to the next stage. Typically, the time maverick combines bravery with high curiosity, with super-self-esteem. These three talents are considered necessary for those engaged in the profession of genetic guide, a.k.a. philosopher.

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Cyberpunks are the inventors, innovative writers, techno-frontier artists, risk-taking film directors, icon-shifting composers, expressionist artists, free-agent scientists, innovative show-biz entrepreneurs, techno-creatives, computer visionaries, elegant hackers, bit-blipping Prolog adepts, special effectives, video wizards, neurological test pilots, media explorers -- all of those who boldly package and steer ideas out there where no thoughts have gone before.

Cyberpunks are sometimes authorized by the governors. They can with sweet cynicism and patient humor, interface their singularity with institutions. They often work within "the governing systems" on a temporary basis.

As often as not, they are unauthorized.

Timothy Leary, "The Individual as Reality Pilot" in Storming the Reality Studio edited by Larry McCaffery (Durham: Duke University Press, 1991), 245, 253.