Shaman aggro is back ? <| sep |> And also How is Sosa doing ? <| sep |> Thats true but it doesn ' t contradict my point at all . From source 1 Along the way , these agents of profit corrupt indigenous peoples , buying them off with cheap consumer goods bikinis , cassette tapes of bad pop songs , mirrorshade sunglasses and destroy their cultural distinctiveness . In Sterling ' s story , the past , no less than the present and the future , becomes a staging ground for the breakdown of cultural difference , its distinctiveness obliterated by the designer labels of corporate capitalism . source 2 A common element of genuine cyberpunk writing found in Neuromancer , is Gibson ' s depiction of the futuristic society and the people who live in it . Once again , Gibson uses the present issues of government and nuclear tension to predict society ' s future . source 3 There are a number of quotes that help to illustrate the essence of cyberpunk ' The future is already here it ' s just not very evenly distributed . ' This quote puts the cyberpunk and the ' High Tech , Low Life , ' dichotomy into context . There exists today high technology , but this technology has failed to erode away social divisions leaving a disparity between the classes which leads to social strife . In addition , although this technology exists the low class does not have the means by which to benefit from it , thus widening the divide as the rich elite get richer and thus have more access to technology . It ' s common around this sub to take a myopic approach to the genre , seeing it only as a thought experiment for a future thats always just over the horizon , and therefore safely far away . But if you go back to the original texts and authors that the genre was founded on , it ' s clear they were just as interested , and possibly more so , in discussing about the present and past decisions humanity has made to stage the path to the dystopian future they were illustrating .