Cyberpunk isn't just sci-fi -- it's Silicon Valley's design theory

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Her augmented eyes are coated in mirrors, and beneath her immaculately manicured nails, quicksilver daggers wait to be sprung. Her boyfriend was Johnny Mnemonic, a human hard drive, gray matter encrypted with a passcode that only the highest bidder can unlock. But that was before he died. Now, Molly is a "razorgirl": a lithe assassin periodically hired for jobs involving computer espionage. She leaves that to her charges, the console cowboys she's paid to protect as they slump in their VR rigs.