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Tomorrow isn't what Yesterday told me it would be... If a cynic is just a disappointed idealist, then we might look at the cyberpunk of the '70s/'80s/'90s/toda

Tomorrow isn't what Yesterday told me it would be... If a cynic is just a disappointed idealist, then we might look at the cyberpunk of the '70s/'80s/'90s/today as the cynical reaction to the idealism of the jet-age future of '50s & '60s speculative fiction. I can't read the article, did they find something idealistic in the speculative fiction of the last few years to feel cynical about? Or is this a new coat of rust slathered over the old Gibsonian grit?

egypturnash 9y ago
Well Gibson's short story "The Gernsback Continuum" is pretty much a middle finger to the SF of, like, 1910-1930. I wonder if there’s anyone writing something similar directed st 80s SF trends? And mostly the article is someone who just discovered ~~CYBERPUNK~~ saying a few big Hollywood sequels/remakes are A Cyberpunk Renaissance. It’s pretty clear they’ve never read a single book, just movies and manga.