Can a "medieval/renaissance fantasy" setting handle

>>54878183
>What is a telegraph

>>54878183
>Can Y theme be adapted the X setting
Yep.

>>54878183
>horrors of the information society
This one could be difficult
>multi-layered conspiracies
Yeah
>increasing power of corporations
India once was privately owned by a company that also had one of the largest armies of the world, so yes

>>54878183
Nigga that was literally the Industrial Revolution and the invention of the printing press. Throw some crazy Frankenstein shit in and you have ye olden day Cyberpunk no problem.

>>54878183
The spread of the printing press as an opening of both reading and writing to people on an unprecedented scale had widespread effects on nationalism, censorship, centralized authority, conceptions of god, the enlightenment era, military training, etc. So yes, you can use themes of changing technology altering how being human operates and is viewed. It will be necessarily different than cyberpunk because the specifics are different, but you can still engage with how the spread of new technologies changes life. Guns being more and more effective too.

Conspiracies are politics are humans. That's what we do.

Early modern/renaissance is formations of economic power blocks as well as nation states and their intertwining. Guilds, financing merchant fleets, crowns granting monopolies on trade routs and fighting about it, etc. Again yes.

Thing to keep in mind about the horrors of technological progress in cyberpunk is a bunch of it is trying to highlight the inherently flawed nature of humans finding new ways to do bad shit, rather than just that new shit is bad.

>>54878183
Yes.

>such as the horrors of the information society
The invention of the printing press was at least as subversive as 4chan is today. You really can't overstate the changes it caused in society when any old normie could get access to the Bible. I mean, it indirectly caused the Protestant heresy and the the 30 Years War.

>multi-layered conspiracies
This is literally when secret societies got their start. Freemasonry and the Illuminati were primarily a late renaissance-era phenomenon.

>the increasing power of corporations
For a time, the East India Company was literally the world's largest economic and military power.