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AI, bitcoin, and street gangs with ICOs: we really do live in a cyberpunk future.
by arcanus 9y ago
AI, bitcoin, and street gangs with ICOs: we really do live in a cyberpunk future.
- ShabbosGoy 9y agoExcept when you live below the API. Then your life becomes a dystopian nightmare.
- freeflight 9y agoAnd we don't even get the fancy fashion and gadgets, I expected way more mohawks, gas masks, and cyber glasses.
- Animats 9y agoAnd we got hoodies and neckbeards.
- fourthark 9y agoMaybe it did not affect the lead characters as much, but a brutal disparity of wealth was always part of the cyberpunk aesthetic.
- usrusr 9y agoHas the label cyberpunk ever been applied to something that wasn't a dystopian nightmare? The closest I can think of is the original Dracula, a story about a group of young, tech savvy people using all the latest gadgets, networks and information technology to fight off a threat to the urbanized world. But that is not often identified as cyberpunk and what it lacks in dystopia it certainly makes up in nightmare.
- arcanus 9y agoInteresting! A steampunk Dracula with precisely those themes would be fantastic.
- usrusr 9y agoRead the book with an open eye for all the ways the human protagonists are empowered by the latest in contemporary high tech. They are only winning because of cutting edge (at the time) information technology: shorthand, the telegraph network, wax cylinder audio recordings, expert application of knowledge about train schedules. (And souped up steamboats) It already has everything that steampunk can be, except for the subtext of condescending mockery that often happens when current writers look at the historical technology.