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Cyberpunk fiction isn't about a hypothetical speculative future. It's an critical allegory for the issues of the present. Of course reality aligns with it when left unchanged.
Hubs made me read / listen to snowcrash this past year and yup. The future really did turn out to be exactly this stupid. Complete with the megachurch pastors. Just completely on the nose.
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