The Future Cyberpunk Imagined Is Here: How Much Did It Get Right?
In brief Brain implants, AI glasses, and advanced prosthetics are beginning to make cyberpunk’s technology a reality. Mondo 2000 co-founder R.U. Sirius says the future turned out far more mundane than imagined. Media scholar Shira Chess argues cyberpunk’s real warning was about corporate power, not chrome. For decades, the sci-fi subgenre known as cyberpunk imagined…