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Not to mention, many cyberpunk ideas just became everyday life, from social networking and "always-connected" being the new normal, market dominance by technolo
by jjoonathan 6y ago
Not to mention, many cyberpunk ideas just became everyday life, from social networking and "always-connected" being the new normal, market dominance by technological megacorps, and cybercriminals scoring big payouts right down to minor terminology like hashtags and life hacks.
The other day an ad for "Mom Hacks" played over the Walmart store intercom. It doesn't seem so long ago that my own mother warned me that normal people only understood the term "hack" to refer to cybercrime. Somewhere between then and now, ideas from our little corner of the world colonized the rest of it, and I don't think I realized how thoroughly it had happened until "Mom Hacks" made me reflect on it.
- Grimm1 6y agoRight exactly, we currently live in a world just shy of having Zaibatsus with their own paramilitary arms minus some of the flashier tech but still including many elements of the dystopias works from the 80's and 90's and even early 2000's were trying to warn us about.
- toyg 6y agoCertain stories about Apple coopting Bay Area police forces to track down their lost prototypes, would indicate that some zaibatsu already have, in practice, their paramilitary. And of course oil companies have had military-grade security basically forever.