>And are the "grimy" parts "trapped in the past" or next door to the "future"? They don't actually intermingle much with the future as cyberpunk might have mad

>And are the "grimy" parts "trapped in the past" or next door to the "future"? They don't actually intermingle much with the future as cyberpunk might have made us think though. Usually the nightmare cyberpunk scenario was that you find yourself in debt peonage to some corporate overlord. But that's a dramatic overestimation of our value to corporate overlords.