luxury high-rises, tent cities, autonomous cars, sidewalk bazars, tech workers dancing on designer drugs while the homeless overdose & die in the gutters outside...
>>woah+tg
>> luxury high-rises, tent cities, autonomous cars, sidewalk bazars, tech workers dancing on designer drugs while the homeless overdose & die in the gutters outside...
> There's nothing cyberpunk about this. Just good old fashioned bad governance, done in the traditional manner.
On the contrary, "good old fashioned bad governance" is an important feature of cyberpunk
>>woah+tg
Sure but SF isn't just another run-down city, it's also the center of the tech universe! So you've got the driverless cars, geeks on one-wheels, the salesforce tower's continually animating digital display, &c. That's what makes it feel cyberpunk to me: The latest tech rubbing shoulders with grimy urban decay.