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Person's essay advocates using the term postcyberpunk to label
the new works such writers produce. In this view, typical
postcyberpunk stories continue the focus on social implications
within a post-third industrial-era society, such as a ubiquitous
datasphere of computerized information and cybernetic
augmentation of the human body, but without the assumption of
dystopia (see Technological utopianism). Good examples are Neal
Stephenson's The Diamond Age and Bruce Sterling's Holy Fire. In
television, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex has been
called "the most interesting, sustained postcyberpunk media work
in existence."[4] In 2007, SF writers James Patrick Kelly and
John Kessel published Rewired: The Post-Cyberpunk Anthology.
Like all categories discerned within science fiction, the
boundaries of postcyberpunk are likely to be fluid or ill
defined.[5]   Cyberprep is a term with