Book 20 on my Kindle. Rewired: The Post-CyberPunk Anthology edited by James Patrick Kelly and John Kessel.
Lots of what you'd expect in here. Splendidly so. The first story is one of my favourites - Bruce Sterling's Bicycle Repairman. I suspect many of these highlights are from here.
From the intro:
"To its critics, cyberpunk was all borrowed surface and no substance: rock and roll Alfred Bester, Raymond Chandler with the serial numbers filed off."
"...with the serial numbers filed off", seems to be a bit of a cyberpunk thing, along with the word "flensed"
Manages to get the perverse appeal of algorithmic curation and advertising into a single sentence:
"Lyle hated the way a mook cataloged your personal interests and then generated relevant conversation. The machine-made intercourse was completely unhuman and yet perversely interesting, like being grabbed and buttonholed by a glossy magazine ad."
That's games right there:
"If the system worked out right, it would make the rider feel completely natural and yet subtly superhuman at the same time."
And objects versus computers, a mission for the internet of things:
"People didn’t like their bikes too complicated. They didn’t want bicycles to bitch and complain and whine for attention and constant upgrading the way that computers did. Bikes were too personal. People wanted their bikes to wear."
Sysadmin wear:
"The trousers had nineteen separate pockets and they were loaded with all kinds of eerie little items: a matte-black electrode stun-weapon, flash capsules, fingerprint dust, a utility pocketknife, drug adhesives, plastic handcuffs, some pocket change, worry beads, a comb, and a makeup case."
And again:
"His bush jacket has sixty four compact supercomputing clusters sewn into it, four per pocket, courtesy of an invisible college that wants to grow up to be the next Media Lab."
And sysadmins as warriors against decay:
"Tomorrow, he’d go back and fix another computer and fight off entropy again. And why not? It was what he did. He was a sysadmin."
And breakfast:
"Breakfast is unchanging, an island of deep geological time standing still amidst the continental upheaval of new technologies."