The fantastic thing about Cyberpunk as a genre is it's ability to explore the future of technology and the dilemmas it may produce. It's the ultimate 'what if' scenario of science.
Cyberpunk and Science Fiction has been used to explore everything from space travel to the internet, way before the internet was a thing. William Gibson explored tablets when computers were huge and CRT monitors took up most of your desk, and virtual reality possibilities that are only now beginning to become possible and mainstream.
My take on this comes from a range of passing interests in science including Quantum Physics, blockchain technologies, and neuroscience. Why not explore all of these areas through fiction.
For me the ideas come first and later I explore the technology to see if it is possible. The stories I write often consider the potential futuristic applications of cutting edge science. It's fiction, but these things may be possible in some form or variation, or they may be totally unrealistic. The questions to humanity are the same.
The never ending landscape of technology means that science fiction and the cyberpunk genre shifts with it.
My latest work is an exploration of an imaginary future where quantum computing becomes mainstream. If Quantum technologies like entanglement, encryption, or something similar were able to be used in a consumer scale technology how it might that happen? What could be the consequences?
By projecting the present into the future and adding these fantastical technologies a story was born.
I also became fascinated by the interface between the brain and the heart, and biological quantum computing.
Could this be combined to create a cryptocurrency based on humanity?
The central question of my story is to ask, how could this kind of technology be used for good, or evil.
Humanity asks the same questions of itself regardless of the technology available. This story is yet another exploration of the same questions.
The answer is often the same... what is humanity without love.
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