Originally Posted by
Selastan
Current events here in America got me thinking...things aren't great here. Wealth inequality and corporations owning the politicians, along with our current level of technical achievements...are we living in a cyberpunk dystopia by definition? We live in a society where a man can get sick, get an artificial organ, go in debt to pay for it, and spend the rest of his life working off that debt for a corporation that all but writes the laws. All while a robot cleans his house, his car drives itself, and he carries a computer in his pocket. I know I've seen it joked about before, 'haha why play Cyberpunk 2077 when we are living in a cyberpunk world right now?' but I'm asking seriously...are we living in a cyberpunk world right now? Out of all the dystopian futures science fiction writers have dreamed in the past, is that the one that ultimately came to be? (At least, in America?)