Cyberpunk like Blade Runner was a direct response to the optimism of the golden age of SF. They said there wasn’t enough sin in those stories. So they had protagonists who were heavy drug users taking out assassination contracts on big corpo CEOs and banging a prostitute in a back alley after they’re done. They have high technology compared to the time it was written, but it doesn’t help the common people make their lives any better. The Earth is a polluted wasteland, and the cities are stuffed full of people with trash all over the place.
Guess which approach is closer to what actually happened?
Cyberpunk like Blade Runner was a direct response to the optimism of the golden age of SF. They said there wasn’t enough sin in those stories. So they had protagonists who were heavy drug users taking out assassination contracts on big corpo CEOs and banging a prostitute in a back alley after they’re done. They have high technology compared to the time it was written, but it doesn’t help the common people make their lives any better. The Earth is a polluted wasteland, and the cities are stuffed full of people with trash all over the place.
Guess which approach is closer to what actually happened?
Don’t worry, they’re banning the sins of the poor and cracking down on the dregs of society, just in time for you to be part of that