/lit/ - Literature

Are you disappointed that cyberpunk never became a reality?

The Internet is a big mall, Japan never became a more influential nation economically than the US, and you look like a dingus if you wear mirrorshades and a trenchcoat.

It's my belief that it's now just common place and sci-fi still has too many stigmas attached to it to be taken as a serious literary form. Which is a shame because I believe cyberpunk more accurately predicted what the world would become. It may have not introduced many radical new ideas (aside from hacking and cyberspace), but it painted a very clear picture on how it would look.

I would like to believe cyberpunk will define generation Z which is why it currently has very little interest invested in it. I can see it likely just becoming contemporary drama because of the frighteningly accurate predictions cyberpunk made. Trans humanism, corporate strangleholds, a more fragmented society, and the rise of cyber space and robotics. Some very ground breaking social changes will come within the next two decades I believe.

https://www.ted.com/talks/hugh_herr_the_new_bionics_that_let_us_run_climb_and_dance

It's my belief that it's now just common place and sci-fi still has too many stigmas attached to it to be taken as a serious literary form. Which is a shame because I belief cyberpunk more accurately predicted what the world would become more accurately than anything.

As time goes on I think this only proves more and more true. Hacking is now becoming a big issue, robotics are developing more and more, trans-humanism is steadily rising with the advent of cybernetic limp replacements and the stranglehold of corporations.

I would like to believe cyberpunk defined our generation but I haven't read any cyberpunk more grounded in reality with current views and analyses at our present state.