The Culture taught tech should be controlled, as it is around us, as it might be used for good. Hippies wanted peace and moved out of the cities. I didnt want much. Just those, who fanatically bow before tech, to recall, that it is not tech, that makes your chances in the future world, tech just enhances them, if you use it right. A time that might come, but not to make your fun, but to make you find a way to survive in it.
Cyberpunks know there's something wrong and they use whats wrong.
They use it to make their way trough the today to the tomorrow, but neither do both exist. You and Now is what counts. Technology is the Tool, Cyberpunk is the man behind it. The same man that used fire to lighten his cave and cook his meat. The same, who uses the net to communicate and suvirve, The Same, Who should not forget the main idea, which surely is not to have or become Technology it self.