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My favorite was when this neoanarchist site published a video of the military killing people, and the credit card companies refused to continue to serve them. A
by orblivion 10y ago
My favorite was when this neoanarchist site published a video of the military killing people, and the credit card companies refused to continue to serve them. And then an amorphous non-organization known as "Anonymous" brought down the credit card companies' websites. Meanwhile the neoanarchists switched to a newly emerging "crypto-currency" created by a shadowy entity known only as "Satoshi Nakamoto".
- krapp 10y agoA Holocaust museum had to stop people from coming inside to catch augmented reality poison gas monsters with their cellphones. That's some Neal Stephenson stuff right there.
- beaconstudios 10y agoand said amorphous non-organisation also arose from a neo-anarchist online collective. And the digital crypto-currency was used to buy drugs and other contraband from digital bazaars hidden in the "deep web". It's quite funny when you think about it, cyberpunk fiction predicted many of the most recent technology intrigue stories/events.
- krapp 10y ago>It's quite funny when you think about it, cyberpunk fiction predicted many of the most recent technology intrigue stories/events. That's not entirely coincidental, considering how influential cyberpunk was during the nascent days of the internet. We have it to thank for the term "cyberspace" after all, and like the technology in Star Trek, a lot of people who grew up with it have been trying to "make it real" with limited success. Still can't store a human consciousness on a tape drive, though.