This could be debated but... sci fi dystopia is meant to highlight the horror we are in right now, not necessarily some prediction of the future. The use of an exaggerated fictional future is meant to shake off the intense normalization of existing in modernity.
I don't think this holds entirely true for cyberpunk as a genre. Like take cyberpunk-esque augmentations, that's just straight up a non-issue, even today. Right on the money as how that will go, if nothing else changes, but I don't think that's a horror applicable now. The underlying problem of how the system works, sure, but that's more a cautionary tale as to how things play out, not how they currently are
This could be debated but... sci fi dystopia is meant to highlight the horror we are in right now, not necessarily some prediction of the future. The use of an exaggerated fictional future is meant to shake off the intense normalization of existing in modernity.
I don't think this holds entirely true for cyberpunk as a genre. Like take cyberpunk-esque augmentations, that's just straight up a non-issue, even today. Right on the money as how that will go, if nothing else changes, but I don't think that's a horror applicable now. The underlying problem of how the system works, sure, but that's more a cautionary tale as to how things play out, not how they currently are
He types from the electronic device that's on his person 24/7
Plastic surgery? It's just having silicone implanted rather than silicon.
you are literally a cyborg and you're saying this