tl;dr: The author argues we're already living in a Ballard/Gibson-style cyberpunk future, illustrating the point with a curated stream of 2025-2026 news clippings: IV drip clinics in shopping malls, robot-dog patrols, AI pop stars with millions of listeners, Meta smart glasses with facial recognition, doping-encouraged "Enhanced Games," and delivery robots dodging drunks on the street. The unsettling twist isn't the technology itself but how mundane it feels—humans adapt within days, treating radical change as background noise, which makes writing science fiction nearly impossible when reality outpaces it weekly.