Hmhmhmhm. I do like the sound of most of those, except for the people farms. I was thinking that the slums would be populated with more of a cosmopolitan immigrant culture, lots of ethnic tension, mostly people taken from developing nations with the promise of good, well-paying work that is actually neither of those things. Basically [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labour_force_of_the_United_Arab_Emirates]this situation[/url].

Biotech: yes, but what kind of augmentations are we talking? I'm thinking basic physical ones for construction work(reinforced bones, synthetic muscle for climbing 2-mile-high skyscrapers, et cetera), maybe shady retractable guns and blades for criminals, and Google glass-type HUDs, usually implanted into the retina, for most people. Personal computing could be done through neural interface if you've got a little bit of cash, but if you don't it's still ridiculously cheap to get a little business-card-sized computer and a contact lens display/retina implant.

Matrix: I think there's a lot of potential to this idea aside from just VR. I think it could serve as a habitat for artificial intelligences leaked from finance firm databases and the like, and kind of have a weird economic/information ecosystem of its own, one based more on data than money or material goods. A rogue AI that previously worked with law enforcement might hack someone's neural implant for you and make them lose all motor control long enough to fall down a flight of stairs, for the right info in return.

Automation sounds good as well, and I like the idea of the slums being kind of a relatively lower-tech unsupervised jungle of sorts.

Other things...

Whatever country this is is basically ruled by an oligarchy of corporations at this point, in classic cyberpunk fashion. Maybe they're private companies that somehow emulate the functions of a normal government? A private prison system, private security forces, privately owned transit companies; you get the idea. Point is that the actual government is just a figurehead. Maybe it's a shell company.

What country is this? Maybe it's an agglomeration of Southeast Asian states.
Okay, maybe just [url=http://i.imgur.com/WH3lnmH.png]southern Thailand and then all of Cambodia[/url]. There was a war. Thailand got split up and then the southern half annexed Cambodia somehow. ...We can discuss this. So maybe we've got big coastal cities that all kind of sprawl together into a big smoggy mess, with some countryside up north that's mostly dominated by wind and solar farms, as well as some more reasonably-sized cities and quaint little villages. That's not really what's important here. The big industry's at the coast.

What's the state of space travel? Could the characters end up in space if they so desired? In ~2070 I imagine there'll be a moon base of some kind, if not a colony. Maybe there are some good-sized residential space stations. Space travel's still a bit of a big luxury, probably roughly equivalent to flying around the world first-class today.

Yes? No? Maybe?