{
  "id": 15409670,
  "title": "The dialectics of Night City: How ‘Cyberpunk 2077’ anticipated our hypercapitalist dystopia",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/18/the-dialectics-of-night-city-how-cyberpunk-2077-anticipated-our",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-10-18T07:02:50.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Hindu - Sci-Tech",
    "slug": "the-hindu-sci-tech",
    "url": "https://www.thehindu.com/entertainment/movies/the-dialectics-of-night-city-how-cyberpunk-2077-anticipated-our-hypercapitalist-dystopia/article71587333.ece"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "William Gibson’s ‘Neuromancer’ bequeathed cyberpunk a future in which capital colonises every frontier. Four decades since, the technofascist sprawl of its progeny is collapsing the distance between dystopian speculation and our late-capitalist present",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}