"It is actually quite obvious: this time again, everything started with Stanisław Lem. If one of the main topics of cyberpunk is an in-depth reflection on the complicated relationships between man and digital technologies, the first Polish proto-cyberpunk text – as with Lem, also innovative in the international arena – is considered to be Summa Technologiae (1964), specifically its fourth and sixth chapters. In the chapter ‘Intelectronics’, Lem considers, inter alia, the phenomenon of information overload (the concept of the ‘megabyte bomb’ appears for the first time) or the issue of the ‘ghost in the machine’, i.e. the possibility artificial intelligence having awareness. On the other hand, ‘Phantomology’ for the first time and immediately on such a scale discusses the issue of the ‘perfect simulation’: virtual reality, based on technology or pharmaceuticals, which is indistinguishable from the real world."
Volt amerikai és volt lengyel cyberpunk világ is. 2077 a kettő keveréke.