cyberpunk writers often correctly noted that the future would involve a lot of people just straight up self-mutilating for an audience to try to get famous, but they tended to overidentify this as occurring in stand-up clubs and underidentify it occurring in politics
the chances of my memory recovering any of the actual stories i was thinking of are mmm low
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if there isn't at least one story hitting the note in Mirrorshades then i'm just a febrile liar about the basic premise of my tweet though
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Tbf, almost none of the stories in Mirrorshades would be considered straight examples of cyberpunk if published today
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