America 2077: When Fiction Starts to Feel Like Reality

Lately, it feels like the United States is inching closer to the dark vision painted in Cyberpunk 2077. Megacorporations already hold immense power, shaping politics, technology, and even our personal lives in ways that blur the line between private and public control. Cities are becoming neon-lit landscapes of inequality—where luxury towers overlook struggling communities, and high-tech surveillance keeps tabs on everyday people.

We see rapid advances in AI, biotech, and automation, yet wealth and opportunity remain concentrated in the hands of a few. Social unrest, distrust in institutions, and the merging of human identity with technology all echo the same themes of the cyberpunk future: progress without equality, freedom traded for convenience, and power flowing to those who own the systems rather than those who live within them.

The world of Cyberpunk 2077 was meant to be a warning—a gritty fiction about unchecked corporate dominance, the erosion of privacy, and technology running faster than society can catch up. And yet, looking around today, that future doesn’t feel so far away.