Why Cyberpunk is no more, and what the corporate bad ending is now.
So, Cyberpunk. Still one of the most important genres of science-fiction. Or atleast of the debate about Science-Fiction. The fear of dropping into a cyberpunk world is still running high, and every time we talk about the power of corporations the spectre of Cyberpunk looms over this debate. But... Is Cyberpunk even still relevant as a bad ending? Well, let's go through some of the core things: - The increasing power of corporations is still very much relevant. They way we see the modern tech companies increasingly grow powerful is threatening, their control over public debate and influence into politics very much growing over the last decade. The influence is in a different way though. Instead of the "contesting sovereignity" part of Cyberpunk, they are more getitng their influence from their influence on public debate. - Human augmentation is a thing that is slowly getting more important. While most of the stuff we are seeing in this regard is still very crude, the d...