Editing Cyberpunk (section)

==== Reception and impact ====
Science-fiction writer [[David Brin]] describes cyberpunk as "the finest free promotion campaign ever waged on behalf of science fiction". It may not have attracted the "real punks", but it did ensnare many new readers, and it provided the sort of movement that postmodern literary critics found alluring. Cyberpunk made science fiction more attractive to academics, argues Brin; in addition, it made science fiction more profitable to [[Hollywood, Los Angeles, California|Hollywood]] and to the visual arts generally. Although the "self-important rhetoric and whines of persecution" on the part of cyberpunk fans were irritating at worst and humorous at best, Brin declares that the "rebels did shake things up. We owe them a debt."<ref>[[David Brin]], [http://www.davidbrin.com/matrixarticle.html Review of ''The Matrix''] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080322014437/http://www.davidbrin.com/matrixarticle.html |date=2008-03-22 }}</ref>

[[Fredric Jameson]] considers cyberpunk the "supreme literary expression if not of [[postmodernism]], then of [[late capitalism]] itself".<ref>{{cite book|last=Jameson|first=Fredric|title=Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism|publisher=Duke University Press|year=1991|page=419|url=http://fa.mayfirst.org/articles/Jameson_Postmodernism__cultural_logic_late_capitalism.pdf|isbn=978-1-61723-002-8|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402124654/http://fa.mayfirst.org/articles/Jameson_Postmodernism__cultural_logic_late_capitalism.pdf|archive-date=2015-04-02}}</ref>

Cyberpunk further inspired many later writers to incorporate cyberpunk ideas into their own works,{{Citation needed|date=January 2015}} such as [[George Alec Effinger]]'s ''[[When Gravity Fails]]''. ''[[Wired (magazine)|Wired]]'' magazine, created by Louis Rossetto and Jane Metcalfe, mixes new technology, art, literature, and current topics in order to interest today's cyberpunk fans, which Paula Yoo claims "proves that hardcore hackers, multimedia junkies, cyberpunks and cellular freaks are poised to take over the world".<ref>{{Cite news|last=Yoo |first=Paula |title=Cyberpunk - In Print -- Hacker Generation Gets Plugged Into New Magazine |work=The Seattle Times|url=https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/?date=19930218&slug=1686110|access-date=2022-12-29 |date=1993-02-18 |page=G.3}}</ref>