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The world started feeling all the bad bits of cyberpunky in the aughts. By the 2010s friends acknowledged it, had a now that I think about it moment or refused to accept a future without Spinners. ( Relevant XKCD )
These days, we know that only rich people and police would get flying cars, but for reasons we can't quite fathom, the surveillance sector of the US and Five Eyes really screwed over the information security sector, so that it's a black-hats paradise right now.
But in the 2020s so much of the scary horror shit written about in 1980s+ Cyberpunk has come true, and those we haven't seen may just be hiding in labs and undeveloped countries somewhere.
If time travel were possible, I'd be suspicious someone was mucking with the timeline since 2000, if not before.