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Japanese and South Korean cities may have "Cyberpunk" aesthetics, but other Cyberpunk elements (brain implants anyone?) haven't materialised yet, so talking of
by rob74 5y ago
Japanese and South Korean cities may have "Cyberpunk" aesthetics, but other Cyberpunk elements (brain implants anyone?) haven't materialised yet, so talking of "Cyberpunk 2.0" is a bit premature in my opinion...
- ArekDymalski 5y agoI think it's rather cyberpunk that have Japanese esthetics not the other way around :)
- greggsy 5y agoI know several people with RFID implants. The Apple Watch collects health metrics, among a other things. A guy had a Bluetooth speaker implanted to cheat exams in India. I think the most dystopic example is the Poor sods whose bionic eyes ceased functioning when the company folded.
- rob74 5y agoYeah, ok, an RFID implant is cool, but it's just something embedded under your skin, so a far cry from a computer interface implanted in your brain...
- vvillena 5y agoImplants are not a thing because there's already a much better alternative in the form of highly portable devices that can be easily replaced. Unless there's a specific use case where a device needs to be inside the body, it won't happen.
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- LewisMumford 5y agoTbf the 2.0 aspect was almost purely aesthetic, but saying that in that article there is a specific mention of things like phones and other tech that's so ingrained in the society in way that wouldn't have been imaginable in the 80s during the OG cyberpunk period.