https://slate.com/technology/2020/04/coronavirus-cyberpunk-science-fiction-government-politics.html

“Beneath the 1982 neo-noir’s trappings of genetically engineered human automatons is a story about corporate power over and indifference to life, alienation in the face of wealthy indifference to the plight of workers.

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But while Blade Runner’s once-distant future of November 2019 feels resonant in so many ways—vast corporate power, persistent surveillance, life in a time of constant crisis—it misses the actual 2019’s most salient feature: an inescapable, painful awareness of politics and of the presence or deliberate absence of government in daily life”.

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Ok, so now just imagine what real life is going to be like in 2049 once the agenda advances far enough.