Generally speaking, SciFi authors get the feelings right, while the minutia is laughable in retrospect. The rogue AI is a jetson-esque malevolence, but we are

Generally speaking, SciFi authors get the feelings right, while the minutia is laughable in retrospect. The rogue AI is a jetson-esque malevolence, but we are starting to see our systems rise out of our control: automated financial institutions that run on a paperclip maximizer ideology, crowdsourced privacy-ruiners. But, to further your point, most cyberpunk authors have progressively limited their scope to a more obtainable vision. Bruce Sterling’s current prediction entails the "Favela Chic” rather than any futuristic nightmare.