Cyberpunk and its derivatives are indeed going on an almost 40 years' reign. What this article forgets is that so-called "golden age" space opera or swashbuckli

Cyberpunk and its derivatives are indeed going on an almost 40 years' reign. What this article forgets is that so-called "golden age" space opera or swashbuckling space privateer style sci-fi had a longer reign from maybe the 1920s until the 1980s. The cyberpunk paradigm is comparatively young. I don't agree with Ursula LeGuin that novelists shouldn't or can't imagine the future. The early cyberpunks certainly did imagine aspects of the future like the importance of cyber-security, individuals vs. massive multinational entities, social fragmentation, and the decay of the nation state. SpaceX's shiny rocket currently taking shape shows that some of the "golden age" space sci-fi writers imagined certain aspects of the future too. The greatest sci-fi is about both the present and the future.