Post-cyberpunk? (Score 1)

An interesting and fine article, that nicely maps some of the sea changes in SF. But to raise two criticisms:

1. Why do people have to use the word "manifesto" so readily? Some of them have issued more manifestos than I've had hot meals.
2. "Here in the United States, economic mobility has rendered the concept of "class" nearly obsolete." A ghastly statement, that I hope wasn't really meant (or doesn't mean what it seems to). How much do inner-city blacks have in common with the Kennedy clan? How much do the entrepeneur inhabitants of Woodside have in common with the immigrants that clean their houses? Regretably, class is alive an well.