At it's best, sci-fi is a great canvas for social commentary. You can use present day concerns and take them out to their ultimate conclusions to highlight the

At it's best, sci-fi is a great canvas for social commentary. You can use present day concerns and take them out to their ultimate conclusions to highlight the risks and rewards of taking our society down a certain path. That also means sci-fi is very much a product of the time it was created. If cyberpunk is getting less relevant, it's only because our society's concerns have moved on from corporate skepticism to corporate embrace and from techno-fear to techno-love. The cyber tech itself has gone from new to mundane. The next anxieties will produce the next sci-fi.