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  "description": "I recently read Mike Piggott's blog post A love letter to cassette futurism (HT Dragonfly BSD Digest). I did not recall having seen the term before, but Mr. Piggott's definition of it being \"a retr-fusion aesthetic from around 1970-1985 ... that essentially envisions a future through utilitarian, analogue technology\" was about what I expected from the headline. As I started reading, I thought to myself that this sounded tangentially similar to cyberpunk (granting cyberpunk is not among my […]",
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  "textContent": "I recently read Mike Piggott’s blog post A love letter to cassette futurism (HT Dragonfly BSD Digest). I did not recall having seen the term before, but Mr. Piggott’s definition of it being “a retr-fusion aesthetic from around 1970-1985 … that essentially envisions a future through utilitarian, analogue technology” was about what I expected from the headline. As I started reading, I thought to myself that this sounded tangentially similar to cyberpunk (granting cyberpunk is not among my favorite aesthetics). Mr. Piggott addressed my thought in the next paragraph:\n\n> Which may put you in mind of cyberpunk as a subgenre, and there’s definite overlap, in a sense.\n>\n> Mike Piggott\n\nFrom Mr. Piggott’s description of cassette futurism and my understanding of cyberpunk, I can see the distinction (I will go with cassette futurism as the better of the two).\n\nYou can reply to this article from your own site by sending a Webmention.",
  "title": "Learning About Cassette Futurism"
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