>Cyberpunk doesn’t feel so novel anymore because we’re quite literally living in a Cyberpunk dystopia. Not really. Our AI is speciously intelligent, our compu

>Cyberpunk doesn’t feel so novel anymore because we’re quite literally living in a Cyberpunk dystopia. Not really. Our AI is speciously intelligent, our computers are woodenly interactive, our governments are unimaginatively democratic, and our corporations are predictably mercantile. There is a general feeling of living in a pre-cyberpunk present but little of that world has materialized and I feel, like notions of a coming atomic age, it will continue to languish unfulfilled until replaced by another fashionable future.