I am completely calm.
By 'Alien' I was refering to it being 'unknowable', not extraterrestrial. In that way you were saying that Cyberpunk tech is 'Alien' because you are saying it bears no correlation to real life.
I am not starting the argument. I have already had it in multiple threads, several times.
As for "What makes me think that our minds are compatible",
THIS does.
Cybernetic limbs are already in use and they can be controlled by being directly linked into our brains. The tech is REAL and it works. (And I am sure it won't be too long before the military finds an excuse to weaponise it... In fact, I would put money on them already trying as we speak.)
That is a Flying Car.
It is real. It's just not in the public domain. Hence why I said, 'In Development'.
I did not say that tech couldn't or wouldn't progress. Quite the opposite.
Trekkies do use the same reasoning, but Star Trek is based way into the future, and it is far more reliant on Sci Fi than Sci Fact when compared to Cyberpunk. You can argue this point with me all you want, but I am paraphrasing Mike Pondsmith on this, so you wont get far. Cyberpunk is Sci Fi, but it is still close to home, thats what is so damn cool about it. All the technology, (well, almost all,) is explained in the books. There are descriptions of how the stuff works all over the place. Sure, some thngs are a bit 'left-field', (Slam Dance memory metal knives for one,) but for the most part it is standard stuff.
The reason we are not 'in space' at present, (as far as I am concerned,) is because the governments of the world decided the risk vs reward wasn't good enough. There are tons of obstacles to life in space, (litterally tons, some of which is all the crap we kept putting in orbit that has become lethal shrapnel...) It is also really expensive to get stuff up there. Did you know it costs roughly $5,000 to get 1lb of matter up there? That means it costs $1.3m to put an average man in a spacesuit in space... Your talking about a shitload of cash to get a single habitat running in space and what would it do? How would it pay for itself?