Isn't it more, "This is why the original cyberpunk dream was always a naive and bad idea"?
Like, it appealed to me too when I was young, but then I learned more about humans and our history and ...
How is this appealing? It's a warning, not a cosy idea to aspire to!
The "punk" in the genre is the rebellion against or rejection of a corrupt and oppressive system that chews people up and spits them out as either defeated or criminals. If you're reading something else, it's not cyberpunk by definition.
Remember, it's hi-tech and low lives.
Solarpunk, I would guess. "The street finds uses for things" doesn't end up being hardscrabble against dystopia.
In the early days of the internet it kind of was. Corporations haven’t waken up to the full commercial potential of the internet. Governments/law enforcement hasn’t quite figured out how this new at-the-time Internet thing worked - “series of tubes” or something.
Then as he noted, there is a significant downside to such a refuge.
transhumanism is how technology will reshape what we think it is to be human, how we view life, death, love, family, success, fear, etc. Cyberpunk is how it won't.