considering cyberpunk completely missed the future that is drone / smartphone dystopia, did it at least manage to correct the course? any fiction that is dealing with present and looking towards the future?

cyberpunk was all based on kowloon walled city and died the day it got bulldozed

>>24562454 (OP)
> dealing with present and looking towards the future?
Doctorow fits that description, but I'm not sure I recommend. Somehow when leftists write jeremiads it's even worse than when rightists do it.

>>24562706
doctorow is either oblivious drone or a writer-bureaucrat for the incoming dystopia
grandstanding normal/moralfag

>>24562454 (OP)
Islands In The Net has drone assassinations

>>24562454 (OP)
Neromancer has drone assassinations. Right after they get hacked by an AI struggling to achieve the singularity in itself.

>>24562931
singularity is bullshit
ai is lauded only by browns due to their subhuman iq and jews due to their control over media

>>24562454 (OP)
Read Triton
>Omnipresent surveillance as entertainment (social media)
>Freedom as the death of culture
>Ridiculous narrative arc of interplanetary war completely in the background, with the focus instead on the main character's unrequited love of an art hoe
>Incel-to-troon pipeline

And on that note, there are tons of books about society becoming bad from looking at screens from F 451 to yeah, Infinet Jeat. Fewer about society becoming bad from being too connected, but still some. Can you elaborate more on what you are looking for? Recent cyberpunk? Literary fiction dealing with the tech of modern life?

>>24562949
Yeah so? I just mentioned it for context of how ahead of the discussion Neromancer was. They didn't just have drones it was part of the entire milieu.

>>24562971
gibsons novels were capers with great material fetishism, everything else was a fantasy of a man who knows nothing about tech

>>24562454 (OP)
It's probably just boring to have smartphones in a story desu

Didn't Hans Moravec predict pre-1990 that symbolic AI would be eclipsed by connectionism / neural networks and take until the 2020s-2030s to become useful/viable? I bought his Robots book because I heard this rumor but I haven't gotten to it yet.

>>24562992
That's a big problem with actual reality, it's so persistent and panopticonized that it defeats many conventional plots
But if you cannot talk about it properly then you avoid it and that's why it's either a throwback or a nonsensical rethreading of futurism

there are two genres about the future, the dying earth subgenre, and climate fiction, or cli fi which deals with climate change.

future is grim

skmmDaemon / Freedom(tm)

>>24562454 (OP)
>any fiction that is dealing with present and looking towards the future?
The Camp of the Saints
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