Is Cyberpunk Really.... Dead?

A good friend of mine posted a rant the other day about how “cyberpunk is dead” and I can’t stop thinking about that post. I don’t believe that my friend was saying that cyberpunk as an ethos is dead, just more like the “cyberpunk subculture as we have known it is dead”. I don’t think that any subculture has an infinite lifespan — at some point, it gets co-opted, appropriated, or monetized in such…