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Sunglasses are often worn just for aesthetic purposes, or simply to hide the eyes.
Examples of sunglasses that were popular for these reasons include teashades and mirrorshades.
The illusion of three dimensions on a two dimensional surface can be created by providing each eye with different visual information.
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It also helped to popularise cyberpunk, a new literary sub-genre.
Bruce Sterling in his preface to Mirrorshades: The Cyberpunk Anthology (1986) referred to Neuromancer as “the quintessential cyberpunk novel” whose fame relied on the depiction of a believably gritty future and the representation of cyberspace as a living space.
However, the image of the future portrayed in Neuromancer had already been anticipated by three key films, all produced in 1982: David Cronenberg's Videodrome with its hallucinatory mass-media world; Steven Lisberger's Tron and its visualisation of cyberspace; and Ridley Scott's Blade Runner with its grim urban spaces.
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Apple Macintosh introduced, the first affordable PC with a GUI (graphical user interface) using a mouse; Microsoft's Windows 1 shipped 1985
Gibson's Neuromancer, winner of several major awards, provides the archetype for cyberpunk, whose manifesto was the 1986 anthology Mirrorshades, ed.
The Terminator, James Cameron's relentless action-adventure film with spectacular special effects, followed by two sequels
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