[margold]

Chinese kids selling their organs to buy iPads is straight out of a cyberpunk novel, as you say many things we read about 10-20 years ago are already here, but it's human nature to find the present the most boring place to be.

But as the article duly notes, -punk is about counterculture, and counterculture is timeless. And when you look at how many people still code in neon green on black background, or read those books, there still seems to be a need for these topics. The conversation is not over yet.

I'm a fan of the daydreaming induced by cyberpunk novels, although I don't understand why, since it's something we experience daily already anyway (and I can take or leave the leather coats, shades, matrix rain, and all other visual hallmarks of cyberpunk). But I think a modern cyberpunk work of fiction can be done, and I hope we will see it done someday.