R.U. a Cyberpunk?

R.U. a Cyberpunk? MONEY (NON-DIGITAL PAPER VARIETY) — In the world of cyberpunk corporate espionage, it all boils down to this 4OZ. VIDEO CAM — for use along with third eye SONY MINIDISC — latest Test Dept. release inside LASER POINTER — hassle people in dark places LOGITECH HANDHELD SCANNER (SCAN MAN 3T FOR MAC) — literary appropriations for own cyberpunk manifesto PRIVATE EYE — essential for staying online 24/7 COMBINATION BRIEFCASE — chuck full of goodies: torque wrenches, line-man’s handset, electronic lock-pick, shotgun mike, and the Demon Dialer SONY MULTIMEDIA CD-ROM PLAYER — Pirated copy of Virtual Light inside SONY VIDEO 8 WALKMAN (RX) — your third eye for realtime surveillance and watching your back CELLULAR PHONE WRISTWATCH — low-budget phone encrypting VOICE CHANGER — sound like anybody and this time around MONOCULAR 10 X 25mm — for shoulder-surfing the passwords MICRO CAMERA — hardcopy data (more proof there) SONY PYXIS — longitude/latitude finder via satellites. Just we’re the hell are you, anyway? STUN GUN — self-defense (plenty offensive) PAGER — yeah, sure, right IBM BAG — last 3 issues of 2600, MONDO 2000’s A User’s Guide, MONDO 2000 #1 VOLMETER — be prepared! APPLE POWERBOOK 160 — highly portable for jacking into anywhere, and for PGP key exchanges, ecc. cyberpunk [‘sy-ber-punk] n. 1: a late 20th century techno-revolutionary, or someone who poses as such 2: a hard-boiled hacker with anarchist inclinations 3: a computer geek who likes Ministry 4: as seen in TIME magazine, a member of a counter-cultural “movement” of the same name, characterized by a combination of technological savvy with a rebellious lifestyle 5: Billy Idol’s comeback album 6: someone who has delusions about living in the future 7: someone who maintains that microchips sunglasses [last seen on CPH’s] never went out of fashion From: The Spy Factory: Voice Changer, Phone Scrambler, 10x25 monocular, Minox micro-M-camera, Stun Gun; Sony: Sony pots MP-15C, Sony Portable Multimedia CD-ROM Player, Sony MiniDisc Player model MZ-1; Reflection Technology: Private Eye; Super Circuits: 4 oz. mini video camera; Logitech: Scan Man 3T for Mac. MONDO 2000

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