this is my issue with cyberpunk “literature”
it’s a genre written by people who barely understand technology and consumed by even more luddite types.
it’s all uninformed fear mongering
this is my issue with cyberpunk “literature”
it’s a genre written by people who barely understand technology and consumed by even more luddite types.
it’s all uninformed fear mongering
This is about as logically consistent as complaining that the two authors who are James SA Corey didn't write an authentic science fiction book series in "The Expanse" because they're not in possession of an Epstein drive.
The early 1980s cyberpunk genre is a speculative fiction that blends scifi and dystopia/extrapolation of current cultural phenomena to some point in the future, don't twist yourself up too much about it.
It's certainly Literature. Shouldn't the quotes be more like '"cyber"punk literature', considering your complaint?
the games are more interesting imo. like deus ex or even cyberpunk 2077
on the contrary it's important for these people to be unencumbered by the technology of today to imagine the future. Imagine thinking in 1900 about flying, or even going to the moon in the context of what existed back then?
Then you should have a problem with science-fiction in general.
What is the issue? It is fiction, it doesn't pretend to represent reality in any way. It is more about badass cyborgs than it is about fear mongering.
But it is dystopian fiction, a genre that has its roots in real society problems turned up to eleven. It is not realistic, but it tends to feel real because of how psychology works, the negativity bias in particular. Same idea with 1984, pure fiction, looks nowhere near modern society, but people will go out of their way to find similarities.
GP sounds like someone complaining about gore/horror being written and filmed by people who never studied anatomy/physiology or sliced open cadavers. Accuracy is not the point of body horror, and fixating on it misses the point of the genre while patting oneself on the back. Same goes for Sociologists/romance novels and infosec folk/hacking scenes: remove your professional hat and enjoy the art for the fiction it is.