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Most of what I read of cyberpunk came true, with the exception of consumer level brain implants and rogue AIs. Probably the main achievement of the cyberpunk g
by motters 16y ago
Most of what I read of cyberpunk came true, with the exception of consumer level brain implants and rogue AIs.
Probably the main achievement of the cyberpunk genre was a recognition that the future was not going to be like Star Trek, and that instead it's a complicated mixture of old and new where social inequalities and squalor remain unchanged and computing infrastructure is equally corruptible.
- sudont 16y agoGenerally speaking, SciFi authors get the feelings right, while the minutia is laughable in retrospect. The rogue AI is a jetson-esque malevolence, but we are starting to see our systems rise out of our control: automated financial institutions that run on a paperclip maximizer ideology, crowdsourced privacy-ruiners. But, to further your point, most cyberpunk authors have progressively limited their scope to a more obtainable vision. Bruce Sterling’s current prediction entails the "Favela Chic” rather than any futuristic nightmare.