Can a story set in neo-feudal Japan, featuring scarce but highly futuristic/unusual technology concentrated in the hands of an evil clan, be considered cyberpunk? Or must the technology be onmipresent?
I’m having trouble finding the right name for our setting. There are no runners or corps, so it’s not cyberpunk. But it’s close.
So Ford applied for a patent to have in car surveillance tech to listen to your conversations, search history, destination data, and among other big tech data to advertise to you in your car while you drive. Now someone made…