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I find the irony here quite amusing: While we usually marvel at the cyberpunk dystopia laid out on paper/screen in front of our eyes, the characters in the stor
by st_goliath 4y ago
I find the irony here quite amusing: While we usually marvel at the cyberpunk dystopia laid out on paper/screen in front of our eyes, the characters in the story typically never stop to question any of it. They take the world they live in completely for granted, making it clear to us, the reader/viewer, that they don't know any different, adding to the extend of the dystopia on display.
And here we are discussing a toilet that probably films you piss, analyzes the data and uses it as input for a video game, all using a built-in computer and display mounted on top. A touch screen no less, because the team involved in developing this, despite probably countless meetings, never even gave a second though towards hygiene, I guess.
A marvel of technology that I could imagine the likes of Neal Stephenson describing in loving detail over at least two pages, describing how the data is hauled off to some remote machine in a data center, collecting statistics of no use to anyone, from hundreds of such installations, all secured only by a couple default passwords.
And our reaction to this is: So? What off it?
- mechanical_bear 4y agoThat was not their reaction. They just wanted to know how it qualifies as “cyber punk”.
- inanutshellus 4y agoFWIW - I thought st_goliath went to great lengths to point out how it's "cyber punk".
- mechanical_bear 4y agoAgreed, I was merely pointing out what their initial comment was saying.
- Eiriksmal 4y agoThe cyberurinals coupled with the bleak sculpture garden[0] outside Eddie's truly do make for a great Stephenson aside, come to life. It's only missing Gibson's combat hovercraft tanks parked by the statues, instead of Ford Raptors. 0: https://www.google.com/maps/@34.9079089,-116.844012,3a,75y,90t/data=!3m7!1e2!3m5!1sAF1QipPwbwEm4xPFsNsP5ty5kExL1cvk1YGAUBJ9OH0W!2e10!6shttps:%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2Fp%2FAF1QipPwbwEm4xPFsNsP5ty5kExL1cvk1YGAUBJ9OH0W%3Dw150-h150-k-no-p!7i2268!8i4032?hl=en https://www.google.com/maps/@34.9079089,-116.844012,3a,75y,9...
- goodpoint 4y ago> I find the irony here quite amusing No, you are confusing cyber*punk* with boring dystopia.