8 Best Articles on Cyberpunk
The most useful articles on cyberpunk from around the web—beginners to advanced—curated by thought leaders and our community. We focus on timeless pieces and update the list whenever we discover new, must-read articles or videos—make sure to bookmark and revisit this page.
Top 5 Cyberpunk Articles
At a glance: these are the articles that have been most read, shared, and saved on cyberpunk by Refind users in 2023.
Short Articles
Short on time? Check out these useful short articles on cyberpunk—all under 10 minutes.
‘Cyberpunk 2077,’ Delayed Another Year, Could Have Changed The Industry
More than a year and a half after launch now, Cyberpunk 2077 continues to stick with me. Not just in terms of the game itself, which I played through in the early, hyper-buggy days, but in terms of…
The Influence of Neuromancer on Cyberpunk — sabukaru
How Neuromancer from William Gibson birthed Cyberpunk
Why William Gibson Is a Literary Genius
Forty years after his breakout story, “Johnny Mnemonic,” the father of cyberpunk remains one of the best writers around
«They teach you that in school. What they don’t tell you is that it’s impossible to move, to live, to operate at any level without leaving traces, bits, seemingly meaningless fragments of personal information. Fragments that can be retrieved, amplified»
The Fictional Future of Cyberpunk Is About to Come True
The real future may be more Amazon and less androids, but the dystopian power dynamics are hard to miss.
‘Stray’ — the videogame where you play as a cat — is breaking the internet
The new cyberpunk cat game for PlayStation and PC has sparked a feline frenzy online, with even real-life cats transfixed by the game footage.
Long Articles
These are some of the most-read long-form articles on cyberpunk.
The Man Whose Science Fiction Keeps Turning Into Our Shitty Cyberpunk Reality
A Q+A with the novelist Tim Maughan, whose disturbing future predictions have had an unfortunate habit of coming true
Cyberpunk is Dead
In cyberpunk, the physical configurations of human bodies tend to express their own utopian political dimension.
Neon and corporate dystopias: why does cyberpunk refuse to move on?
Repeatedly reproduced and reimagined since the 80s, the tropes of cyberpunk must evolve or die
What is Refind?
Every day Refind picks the most relevant links from around the web for you. Picking only a handful of links means focusing on what’s relevant and useful. We favor timeless pieces—links with long shelf-lives, articles that are still relevant one month, one year, or even ten years from now. These lists of the best resources on any topic are the result of years of careful curation.
How does Refind curate?
It’s a mix of human and algorithmic curation, following a number of steps:
- We monitor 10k+ sources and 1k+ thought leaders on hundreds of topics—publications, blogs, news sites, newsletters, Substack, Medium, Twitter, etc.
- In addition, our users save links from around the web using our Save buttons and our extensions.
- Our algorithm processes 100k+ new links every day and uses external signals to find the most relevant ones, focusing on timeless pieces.
- Our community of active users gets the most relevant links every day, tailored to their interests. They provide feedback via implicit and explicit signals: open, read, listen, share, mark as read, read later, «More/less like this», etc.
- Our algorithm uses these internal signals to refine the selection.
- In addition, we have expert curators who manually curate niche topics.
The result: lists of the best and most useful articles on hundreds of topics.
How does Refind detect «timeless» pieces?
We focus on pieces with long shelf-lives—not news. We determine «timelessness» via a number of metrics, for example, the consumption pattern of links over time.
How many sources does Refind monitor?
We monitor 10k+ content sources on hundreds of topics—publications, blogs, news sites, newsletters, Substack, Medium, Twitter, etc.
Can I submit a link?
Indirectly, by using Refind and saving links from outside (e.g., via our extensions).
How can I report a problem?
When you’re logged-in, you can flag any link via the «More» (...) menu. You can also report problems via email to hello@refind.com
Who uses Refind?
300k+ smart people start their day with Refind. To learn something new. To get inspired. To move forward. Our apps have a 4.9/5 rating.
Is Refind free?
Yes, it’s free!
How can I sign up?
Head over to our homepage and sign up by email or with your Twitter or Google account.