The most correct use for this analogues of owners, hermits and pets is as tool of desconstructing the cyberpunk genre.
It's no longer human culture in animal nature; but owner culture in anthroposcenic nature.
What happens when one that can live centuries in an intellectual enlightened form lives in a world of pollutatition, cities, old infastructure—and of course the organic leftovers?
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Noteworthy to say this makes up perhaps half of cyberpunk's foundations—one should not ever define cyberpunk solely with this idea.
