No, It’s Not Cyberpunk - Blood Knife
The future that we both imagined and feared never arrived, replaced with one no less terrifying but far more obscure. Welcome to the Corporate Gothic.
No, It’s Not Cyberpunk The futures we imagine are never the ones that actually arrive. This is a basic fact of life. The 20th century did not usher in an era of massive concrete blocks and men living in perfect harmony . Jetpacks and flying cars are still frustratingly absent . Alas, you will not go to the moon . And so given our poor track record of predicting the future, we shouldn’t be surprised that 2020 finds us … not slaving away at a zaibatsu that hires cyborg assassins to take out renegade biochemists, or kicking off the Straylight Run under the brutal neon of a Berlin nightclub,
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