Bruce Sterling vs. Gibson in Shadowrun., Which has the dominant idea? Options

[emo samurai]

Bruce Sterling is in many ways very much opposed to the idea that technology removes much of the meaning, passion, and, paradoxically, human order from human existence. His comlinks bridge culture gaps and form otherwise impossible social networks. His corporations are paragons of selflessness in stark contrast to the selfishness exhibited by crooked bankers worldwide. A corporation travels back in time to stave off the French Revolution, give motorcycles and uzis to the joyfully payrolled mongol horde, and tell off Thomas Jefferson for having slaves. Technology, in Bruce's world, is a wonderful, wonderful thing.

In Gibson's world, technology is banal self-interest incarnate. Its intrusion into society makes human existence into a struggle for survival that is thinly hidden by prostitution, drugs, and simsense. The lives of its poor are steeped in simsense, violence, social posturing, and drugs they can barely afford. The lives of its rich are also steeped in simsense, violence, social posturing, and drugs they can barely afford. Han Virek is described as completely inhuman.

Which viewpoint wins out in Shadowrun? You lose essence for cyberware, but everyone who gets it is all "Cool, AR." The NAN beats the banal bureaucracy of the US, but it in turn balkanizes into a bunch of self-interested and petty city-states. And so on, and so forth.