“…The phrase 'high tech, low life' is often used to capture the narratives and characters most common to cyberpunk: these are stories of criminal underworlds, street-level violence and disenfranchised citizens. Multinational commercial conglomerates dominate, if not govern, creating vast social stratification, dividing society between a super-rich elite and a huge number of the desperately poor (Senior 1996;Schaub 2001;Butler 2003). Advanced technology, however, is within reach of everyone and anyone; machines, gadgets, holograms and even robots are ubiquitous at every level of society, regardless of class or wealth.…”