There's a good saying that cyberpunk is "high tech low life", which is not the reality of today. USA may be close to it, because social progress is not linked t

There's a good saying that cyberpunk is "high tech low life", which is not the reality of today. USA may be close to it, because social progress is not linked to the technical progress there, but in the rest of the world it's not like that. There are lo-tech areas with low quality of life and balanced and sustainable high-tech societies. Cyberpunk is usually about dystopia: mentioning utopia as an example against it is thus perfectly valid (and if you go to Japan, which might was an inspiration for cyberpunk writers in 1980s, today it's everything but cyberpunk).