Even 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 t

Even 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.