Did he predict our future?

Is this an accurate description of our near future to come?
> technology has become so cheap and ubiquitous due to technological acceleration
> as a result advanced technology exist everywhere, in everything ( I'm thinking similar to internet of things)
> body augmentation with technology isn't any longer confined to taking place in a lab, it has spread to the rest of society via the black market with no regulations.
> The procedure known as jacking in to the internet is equivalent of taking heavy drugs, people are so addicted to it that they surrender all their freedom for it.
> people are addicted to technology similar to how addicted we are to the internet and smart phones today, people literally feel anxious if they forget their phone at home
> pollution has completely destroyed the environment and the sky( the sky resembled something on television set tuned to a dead channel)
> mega corporations rule the world with draconian measures, competing with each other, hiring hackers to steal other corporations data

Unregulated capitalism which is the result of neoliberal politics only seem to perpetuate this dog eat dog world, it seeks to take over as the global hegemonic system all in the name of a everlasting progress, technological advancement is a means to an end even if those means ends up being disastrous. We are already seeing the effects of it today, giant tech monopolies that governments are in bed with, the creation of a super rich oligarch class with the power to undermine our democracy, people spending more time online, the disintegration of social values etc.

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Post your real flag faggot

Every time something appears to "come true" in pop culture it is because the braintrust trying to steer us is so inept that they can only follow concepts that are 40 years expired.

Snow Crash was a bit more prescient IMO, but generally yeah those guys were spot on

You do realize that what was once considered science fiction has become a reality, this book first created the concept of an internet and a decade later the WWW was created. This book even described how people similarly use technology today and our tech obsessed culture, so I'd say it still holds.

No because no one is trying to become a wasp

>muh tricorder

And we jumped from the 18th century to the 20th in 100 years without the aid of some faggot and his book. Be white.

I need to reread it. It's been 15 years since I read Gibson. Never read his sequels either.

sort of....everything he predicted that was bad came true: mutlicultural mud, corporations and the rich run everything, rampant crime, loss of god and humanity"
but everthing cool he predicted didn't come true: case-like hackers, razor girls, space stations, god like AIs

No.
>Tech advancement has slowed massively since the 90s.
>Resource scarcity prevents a nanotechnology revolution.
>People are getting dumber due to dysgenic breeding.
>Corporate leaders are just as dumb as public leaders and companies are dropping like flies.
The future will be stagnation and unbelievable levels of correction to sustainable living along with necessary eugenic breeding to help societies eventually transcend the plateau and get into extra-planetary colonization.