Cyberpunk once stood out as a vital genre of anti-capitalist fiction. Today, it’s been reduced to a cool retro aesthetic easily appropriated by the world’s second-richest man to market ugly Blade Runner–inspired trucks to nostalgia-driven Gen Xers.
I'm a hard sci-fi nerd so I'm probably not that knowledgeable outside my bubble, but transhuman and singularity stuff has been a hot new thing some time ago.
I've always thought that was at least part of cyberpunk. Neuromancer is about an AI attaining true consciousness, after all. I guess one thing that cyberpunk is good is that it can consume any scientific concept without fully exploring the consequences of the idea because society is so decayed there isn't really a way a technology can change the course of the world anymore.
I'm a hard sci-fi nerd so I'm probably not that knowledgeable outside my bubble, but transhuman and singularity stuff has been a hot new thing some time ago.
I've always thought that was at least part of cyberpunk. Neuromancer is about an AI attaining true consciousness, after all. I guess one thing that cyberpunk is good is that it can consume any scientific concept without fully exploring the consequences of the idea because society is so decayed there isn't really a way a technology can change the course of the world anymore.