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post-cyberpunk is pretty positive too. It's basically near-future tech in a society not that far from our own, and the conflict comes from the exact kinds of co
by beaconstudios 8y ago
post-cyberpunk is pretty positive too. It's basically near-future tech in a society not that far from our own, and the conflict comes from the exact kinds of conflicts we're starting to think about now around privacy, economic advantage, AI going wrong and so on. But it's not inherently dystopian like cyberpunk is.
- jhbadger 8y agoEven traditional Gibsonian cyberpunk isn't really as dystopian as it is often presented as. I remember an interview with William Gibson where he said the fact that he assumed that there would be a civilization, even a flawed one, in the mid 21st century, was optimistic given that he was writing in the 1970s and 1980s when it was widely assumed that we would likely nuke ourselves into extinction in a few years.