Mx. Luna Corbden 🐸Thought #cyberpunk depicted an *unrealistically* dark future where the best jobs were contract gigs, space was privatized, corporations became techno-feudalists in total control of weak governments, drones roamed the air, every corner of the earth was saturated in pollution, and everyone had blue hair.
Greg Leunig@corbden I feel bad for Gibson and Stephenson and other 80s and 90s #cyberpunk authors. Imagine writing an exaggerated dystopia highlighting the failures of our current system... only to live 30 more years to see the exaggerations become reality.
@booksthatgoboom I’m not so sure they thought they were exaggerating. My guess is they extrapolated in earnest.