You are no longer in the 80s: leather jackets have long been out of fashion, sunglasses-mirrors that were once a symbol of coolness now resemble more American cops, cables have been replaced by wireless technologies. You live in the third decade of the 21st century: you are not technophobic, you know that technology is here to improve your life, to make it simpler, more enjoyable. The high tech - low life dichotomy seems absurd, paradoxical to you. The digital world is simply a complement to the real one and no one inside wants to harm you, no one wants to exploit you, deceive you, control you.
Or maybe not;
 Ten authors welcome us to the dark world of cyberpunk; the world of technological explosion and social madness, the world of the schizophrenic humanoid of the future: our own future as they imagined it. And it is not a happy future. And it is not a happy world.
Somehow, perhaps, like our own;