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If we're thinking cyberpunk, then the solution should also be in style. Say, if in some hypothetical future it becomes a commonplace way of tracking customers,
by drdaeman 1y ago
If we're thinking cyberpunk, then the solution should also be in style. Say, if in some hypothetical future it becomes a commonplace way of tracking customers, replacing modern radio beacon tracking tech - how about personal privacy preserving devices that'll constantly spray out tons of random DNA samples (probably crowdsourced), drowning any attempts to analyze anything in the noise?
- pyuser583 1y agoWhen I was a kid …cyberpunk meant gritty, not stylish. Think Blade Runner. It meant a group of streetwise punks who used illegal tech and wore the same clothes for weeks on end. Anyone stylish was a villain, or at least suspect. I wonder why the cyberpunks became well dressed? Was it the Matrix? Or maybe X-Files?
- Loughla 1y agoCyberpunks became well dressed because manufacturers realized it was a way to sell people things, probably around the time The Matrix came out. If the aesthetic is old, grungy clothes, there isn't much money to be made. But if popular media shows cyberpunk aesthetic as chic and cool, now we can sell shiny pants to 20 year olds. Maybe I'm just extra disillusioned today, but it does seem like mainstream marketing and sales is the death of all things. Now I am become salesman, destroyer of worlds.