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"\"- I suspect the rise of the internet in the late 90s lead to a backwards reading of these books as \"prophetic\" in a way that they might not have been interpreted at the time of their release - so I'd be interested in what the contemporary view of these books was.\"\n\nI could be way off-base here, but I'd rather suspect the reverse; a future of hypertalented netrunners who could travel through the cyberspace that baffled normals made perfect sense when reality was that the proto-internet was entirely the domain of geeky college kids and the military. Especially if you were a geeky college kid who wanted to see yourself as a hypertalented netrunner.\n\nThe current world, where almost everyone is online almost all the time, isn't one cyberpunk predicted at all."
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