It is a good set-up. We’re just perpetually in the “events leading up to the international cybercorp wars” stage.
I think the real world is not separated nicely into backstory and actual story, so we’ll kind of bumble along for better or worse instead of hitting some grand moment of change.
Near future fiction needs that dramatic moment to neatly jump from the present to the setting.
Well, corporate warfare is just warfare since the megacorporations have essentially purchased the governments of the Earth. Much of government regulation and market intervention is a result of regulatory capture, and voting effectively achieves very little other than keeping the people fighting each other while the megacorporations and ultra wealthy divide the spoils.
I think the real world is not separated nicely into backstory and actual story, so we’ll kind of bumble along for better or worse instead of hitting some grand moment of change.
Near future fiction needs that dramatic moment to neatly jump from the present to the setting.