After spending a couple hours cranking on roughs for the Rainfurrest website, I suddenly realized something: cyberpunk is now as irredeemably retrofuturism as the Gernsbackian scientifiction future that Gibson did an extended takedown of as one of his early short stories. It is wrapped up with the late Eighties and early Nineties for me, full of that era's neuroses and dreams.
It's still fun to play with, don't get me wrong, but it just doesn't taste like the future any more. Real life's caught up with it in some ways, and utterly failed to realize it in others.
Though I do keep on feeling like I'm living in a Bruce Sterling novel now and then.