Cyberpunk fiction isn’t about a hypothetical speculative future. It’s an critical allegory for the issues of the present. Of course reality aligns with it when left unchanged.
Hubs made me read / listen to snowcrash this past year and yup. The future really did turn out to be exactly this stupid. Complete with the megachurch pastors. Just completely on the nose.
Cyberpunk fiction isn’t about a hypothetical speculative future. It’s an critical allegory for the issues of the present. Of course reality aligns with it when left unchanged.
Hubs made me read / listen to snowcrash this past year and yup. The future really did turn out to be exactly this stupid. Complete with the megachurch pastors. Just completely on the nose.
Have a read of Transmetropolitan.
Hubs
Most Cyberpunk stuff was written in the late 80s / early 90s, so it’s more based on the issues of that period, which is now about 40 years ago.