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I talked with my social circle just the other day how our timeline is really a Cyberpunk timeline with only technology and body augments seemingly lagging behin
by A4ET8a8uTh0 4y ago
I talked with my social circle just the other day how our timeline is really a Cyberpunk timeline with only technology and body augments seemingly lagging behind.
I am both excited and horrified, because that universe is pretty dark. I suppose I should be thanking our lucky stars we are not moving towards 40k universe.
- dmd 4y agoI mean - 40k is set in the year 40k, roughly, right? We've got a lot of time.
- pnt12 4y agoI don't!
- Der_Einzige 4y agoThis is correct. I tell all my friends to watch blade runner and related cyberpunk if they want an idea for what the future of AI is going to look like. I really doubted for awhile that it would be so damn cyberpunk and so damn predictable. Than I saw stable diffusion and realized the "enhance" scene from blade runner was simply prophetic...
- Semaphor 4y agoI’ve recently met an acquaintance with a bionic leg again. It detects if he’s walking forward or backward, climbing stairs, walking, or running. It only needs to be charged once or twice a week and works even on unstable, muddy ground. Now granted, it’s a 6 figure device, but still, I’m really impressed whenever SotA body replacement parts come up.
- bombolo 4y agoIt's extra fun when they detect wrong and drop you on the ground. (got one)
- Semaphor 4y agoSounds super fun :D How often does that happen? But then, the first time I met him, was at Wacken 2007. The legs could do nothing but walking at a measured pace (though I thought that was still pretty impressive), and had to be recharged every evening.
- debacle 4y agoIt seems like the greatest thing lagging behind is society. What the reddit poster did was possible 20 years ago, but likely would have caused wistful maidens to faint, etc.
- madamelic 4y agoYep. I have 2 RFID implants and I don't mention it to most people because I have genuinely gotten bad reactions from even other software engineers. It's a pretty minor 'modification' but people get really weirded out about non-medical implanted tech.
- debacle 4y agoI am a body purist, but I understand why people are curious about these things. More functional than navel piercings, at least.
- youainti 4y agoI point out to people that we've got lots of cyborgs. Just look at everyone with an artificial pancreas in the form of a glucose pump.