We've seen the influence of cyberpunk on the days of the early Internet, but to understand what came next, we need to go back a little farther. If writers like Neil Stephenson set the stage for the major conflicts of the 1990s and early 2000s, it was a writer from a previous generation who anticipated the cultural clash that would sweep the tech world in the 2010s. How would cultural conflict impact the future of our tech-enabled society? Could a people-focused, cultural approach address the shortcomings of the hacker era and move us closer to Edmund Berkeley's vision of social responsibility in technology?