Much of modern Cyberpunk feels more like Near-Future-noir. Stories live in the future but feel less wildly futuristic. I think this cuts close to the reason wh

Much of modern Cyberpunk feels more like Near-Future-noir. Stories live in the future but feel less wildly futuristic. I think this cuts close to the reason why I don't enjoy cyberpunk quite as much as I did. As our world has actually become more and more cyberpunk, it feels less and less like fiction, or entertainment. One moment in particular that stands out to me, was back around the time of the Arab Spring, when people in Turkey were spray-painting Google DNS server IP addresses on walls to help people evade the government 'net restrictions. That was one of the times I really thought: "We are living in the cyberpunk future, now." Of course not all of the sci-fi elements of cyberpunk are here yet (no Altered Carbon style ability to shuffle your mind into another "sleeve" for example) but you can definitely start to recognize a lot of elements of it in real life today.