He claims that sci-fi can't move past Cyberpunk, but I think there's a much more reasonable take on this - Modern day society looks a lot like the sci-fi novel

He claims that sci-fi can't move past Cyberpunk, but I think there's a much more reasonable take on this - Modern day society looks a lot like the sci-fi novels from the 80s. Novels that use modern day as a kick-off point will naturally have elements of that embedded within them. That sure as hell doesn't make them "punk" novels. I think modern sci-fi has gone a LONG way past "punk" and is pretty firmly in the "post-apocolyptic" realm right now (which I find marginally entertaining and relatively scary depending on my mood any given day). That said, I think another large reason is that we're still in early days for many of the technological themes presented in those punk novels. Human-machine interfaces are still in infancy. AI is breaking ground, but just barely. Power generation is basically the same story (although modern fusion is looking more and more compelling). We have SO much untapped potential there that it's absolutely obvious why people continue to write different takes of it. Alternatively, the author just has a fetish for punk styled novels and hasn't quite realized it yet.