What are, in the 20's, the big concepts that "cyber"[1] was to the 80's?
Ecopunk has apparently been done, in 風の谷のナウシカ: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24298259
[1] we started with Tron and wound up with "I put on my robe and wizard hat."
Ecopunk has apparently been done, in 風の谷のナウシカ: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24298259
[1] we started with Tron and wound up with "I put on my robe and wizard hat."
Paolo Bacigalupi's "The Windup Girl" is an interesting take on this.
The most concise take I've seen for the core defining aesthetic of cyberpunk is: "high tech, low life."
With that in mind, I don't think it _really_ matters what the tech is, so long as the story is about those on the fringes of society and their interactions with it; how _alien_ the world is to them, and how alien they are to the world.
+1 for Tom Clancy though. I grew up reading all the Rainbow Six books.
This is where the term "Yellow Journalism" derives from; but even that aged term came to being well after distrust in news media was common.
Also, handing out and distributing hand-pressed folios was common; and a source of much of the zeitgeist for several political revolutions.
The other big concept will be concentration camps, specifically the ones currently operated by the United States. China also has these, at a larger scale and with much, much worse treatment, but the megacorps that control western media are too cowardly to broach the subject until after they are banned from the country. Criticizing the US is less risky. Perhaps the next Nobel in literature will be written by a teenager currently laying on a concrete floor trying to console a toddler who was sprayed with a chemical prohibited by the Geneva Convention.
I think one big thing they missed was the decay of traditional news media and the rise of social media but maybe I'm forgetting something.