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Seconded. Those ads for prototypical "smart drugs" that promised a Brave New World populated by Mozarts and Einsteins. One wonders at an alternative history, in which all tech is optimized for hedonia, aesthetics and sensuality ;)

Also check out Marianne Trench's doc Cyberpunk (1990)

https://archive.org/details/cyberpunk_201410



Patrick Farley's "The Guy I Almost Was" comic has a perspective on those magazines, starting from when he'd read them as an adolescent.

http://electricsheepcomix.com/almostguy/

(Warning: it has some NSFW bits -- apropos of cyberculture messages, and of his thinking at various times/ages -- and it's also a longish read, so maybe best for after work, for most of our jobs. Other than that, it's the most accessible critique of cyberculture that I'm aware of. I never read most of those magazines myself, so I can't say how complete it is, but I overlapped with some people from that space who were still trying to position themselves as future visionary elite, much like Farley describes, and it took me a while to figure out.)


Terrific! thnx for sharing, the wheel of fate is inescapable indeed ;)




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