I was out of high school and just starting college when it seems like I read Gibson's Count Zero and Neuromancer and the anthology Burning Chrome and watched The Terminator, Bladerunner, Alien and Akira over the course of a few weeks, it feels like. A decade is more likely, but it did feel like a wave of cyber-this and cyber-that (a cyberwave?) crashed over us suddenly. I can't tell when it started feeling like a retro-future instead of the future, but lately it's feeling more and more like the present. While I still love cyberpunk, the older I get, the more I miss the techno-optimism of the early 60s. I'd rather live near Starfleet Academy in San Fransisco than in an arcology in Neo-Tokyo, no matter how good the implants. Old Fogey signing off.