You may very well be right, and it’d make sense if so. Some would probably consider what I’m asking for “post-cyberpunk” (or whatever), but that gets bogged down in semantics that I’m not familiar enough with to navigate.

But that’s all part of my curiosity and why the specificity of the ask. What does it even mean to write cyberpunk nowadays? If it’s a particular past vision of the future and we’re in that future (or some vaguely similar situation), then what is today’s vision? Is it even possible for it to resemble classical “cyberpunk” enough to be considered the same genre? Would it just be the same-but-more tropes? More/less grounded in existing tech? Or is it the path to creative entropy? I have no idea. And thus: the ask.