Can we update cyberpunk by adding biological engineering--bio-hacking

>>53988852
Yeah it's called biopunk

>>53988852

Long since done. Try cyberpunk author Bruce Sterling's book Schismatrix Plus.

Biopunk and transhumanist sci fi are the words you're looking for. RPGs: shadowrun, Transhuman Space, and others. Eclipse Phase if you can stomach it.

>It's already been done

Oh. So what's the next step then?
Robotic minds?

>>53988982
implementing metaphysics

>>53990443
You mean like, vat-grown angels?

>>53990583
Hell if I know. Assuming all the usual post-humanism is over, there's not much to do with cyberpunk, especially if you also consider post-scarcity. If some metaphysics breakthrough happened by accident in a generic cyberpunk setting, that could stir shit up. Fucking with the fabric of reality is always fun. If a religion turns out to be true, its followers could turn into the higher class. Alternatively, psychic stuff or straight up magic. Dunno, go wild.

Why isn't there a modern near future/cyberpunk setting(with devs that aren't absolute cunts)?
There's certainly a niche, people love cyberpunk.

>>53990583
That's almost literally the plot of Evangelion.

>>53990788
Cyberpunk as a setting is all about stuff changing too fast for people to keep up with and causing anachronisms and future shock. That's real life now.

>>53990788
you can say last man standing ano, it's okay

>>53990788
>g(with devs that aren't absolute cunts)?
Cyberpunk got old and nobody's interested in it anymore. Half of gamers are "cyberpunk is nao" and the other half are "cyberpunk is transhumanism". Game over.

>devs that aren't absolute cunts

Most devs are absolute cunts to somebody. Define what you mean more clearly.

>>53988852
Only if you get further than real life. That's what doomed cyberpunk.

BTW, as I posted in other thread, there are ideas to make bioluminscent leaves with gold nanoparticles, shrubs that can leech metals from the ground, transform forests in gigantic antenna arrays and a bunch of crazy stuff already. And that's only vegetables. I haven't been up to date on animals.

Better get drugs to imagine crazier stuff. All the drugs.

If you aren't convinced yet, google "biogeocomputing".

>>53988925
>>53988967
Ribofunk actually, sorry kid