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So far I'm enjoying it more than The Neuromancer, less innovative perhaps, but the story and setting seem better represented to the imagination and play out more like a movie.
It could just be my own mindset that I'm better focused or something, but with all the Covid-19 shit going down atm I srsly doubt that 🤣

but then takes advantage of the situation, and let's say strict quarantine measures, are still in effect hundreds of years after the catastrophe for no reason but to tyrannize and exploit the population.
I doubt reality will turn out that way, they are complicit now cuz it's the right thing to do, but once the body count goes down restrictions need to relax.

Cyberpunk is often called dystopian but actually it isn't, tech and capitalism have advanced, and it describes the grittier walks of life.
Real-life under Covid-19 quarantine atm is more dystopian, but that too isn't really dystopian, we're just doing what we have to without a cure/vaccine.
Dystopian worlds have often started with a catastrophe, like war or indeed, pandemic, upon which the gov takes drastic action