kontextmaschine:

‘80s-90s cyberpunk put a lot of weight on the things that would go on to make the world we live in today

but also a lot of weight on SF being not a tech hub in its own right but the legal/biz/finance hub of Pacific trade with bicycle couriers as the cutting-edge way to send 300-page deal packets 6 blocks away and 20 floors up

which means that the William Gibson vision of the cyberpunk Bay (Kowloon Walled City-style homeless encampment on the Golden Gate Bridge, representing SF Queen-of-the-Pacific under urban blight)

AND the successor Neal Stephenson bimbo box burbclave MUD cyberpunk SoCal representing LA Vapid Nowheresville as the new real California authentic American frontier

both came before even the first late-90s dot.com boom, huh