[zipwitch]

Yes. Here come the ractors.

Just one of a great many points of correspondence between the present day and cyberpunk dystopian fiction. (Technically, I think Diamond Age is post-cyberpunk.)

Over at Naked Capitalism, the daily news rundown has a section titled The Jackpot.

[duckingtest]

What was dystopian about Diamond Age? While it wasn't explicitly utopian, the world is much closer to utopia than dystopia. Certainly better than current reality.