That's precisely it. As a genre, cyberpunk is something we can never truly go home to. It's now deeply, legitimately retro.
It would be possible, I suppose, to extrapolate on future trends and society from this point forward, but it wouldn't be cyberpunk (nanopunk?). Furthermore I wonder if it'd be as interesting as cyberpunk was, by dint of the rise of a kind of omniscience via Google, surveillance, etc. It's hard to have a good chase movie when mobile phone towers, GPS, credit card transactions and urban security cameras do the work of the antagonist. The Jason Bourne novels do okay within the framework, but No Country For Old Men couldn't have.
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It would be possible, I suppose, to extrapolate on future trends and society from this point forward, but it wouldn't be cyberpunk (nanopunk?). Furthermore I wonder if it'd be as interesting as cyberpunk was, by dint of the rise of a kind of omniscience via Google, surveillance, etc. It's hard to have a good chase movie when mobile phone towers, GPS, credit card transactions and urban security cameras do the work of the antagonist. The Jason Bourne novels do okay within the framework, but No Country For Old Men couldn't have.