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Hacker Review of Ghost in the Shell (1995)
I've been longing to dive deep on this modern classic.
Ghost in the Shell was originally published as a manga by Masamune Shirow in 1989-1990. It entered the wider pop culture with its anime (animated movie) release in 1995, directed by Mamoru Oshii. The anime is a combination of several of the manga pieces put into a tight timeline.
The Wachowskis were heavily influenced by Ghost in the Shell when they created the Matrix trilogy. Even the Matrix digital rain is inspired by the anime.
Hacker Realism: ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Hacker Plot Importance: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐
Hacks: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
The word cyberspace started out as something quite different from what we know it as today. Atelier Cyberspace was created in the 1960s by Danish artist Susanne Ussing and her partner architect Carsten Hoff. Here’s what Hoff said about it in 2015:
To us, "cyberspace" was simply about managing spaces. There was nothing esoteric about it. Nothing digital, either. It was just a tool. The space was concrete, physical.