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What is Cyberpunk?
Cyberpunk is a science-fiction sub-genre dealing with the integration of society and technology in dystopian settings. Often referred to as “low-life and high tech,” Cyberpunk stories deal with outsiders (punks) who fight against the oppressors in society (usually mega corporations that control everything) via technological means (cyber). If the punks aren’t actively fighting against a megacorp, they’re still dealing with living in a world completely dependent on high technology.
Cyberpunk characteristics include:
- Dystopian city setting where mega-corporations rule
- Full integration of technology into society, featuring cybernetic implants
- Outsider protagonists (punks) who often are very familiar with the technology around them
- Hard boiled detective and film noir vibes and influence
- Themes dabbling in trans-humanism, existentialism, and what it means to be human.
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Is ‘Brazil’ in contention?
That's closest to the expected Idiocracy in cyberpunk aesthetic.
Whoever thought that we'd look at idiocracy and think "well, it's optimistic because they put the smart person in charge of real policy"
I guarantee it wasn't Mike Judge. He put Crocs in the movie because they were just coming out and thought they were so stupid, they'd never take off.
Look where we are now.
Or 'THX 1138'
Oof. The Ministry of Information would like to interview you about your involvement in this "buttle" affair.
Side note: I really liked Her. Great music, relatable story (for terminally online folk at least). If you haven’t seen it, I’d recommend.
Karen O is a treasure.
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William Gibson's writing after the Sprawl trilogy always seemed very likely to happen. I mean, squatters living on the Bay Bridge in NorCal after it gets damaged in an earthquake, for instance. Not the really out there stuff.
That was always one of my favorites, and it seemed so likely. Now, however, I realize that it was horribly overimpressed with corporations, like most 80s stuff was. We know innovation isn't something megacorps do anymore.
The one I wished for was more of a Shadow Run future, and my native friends and I used to joke about it.
Yes, absolutely. His most recent books, the peripheral and agency, have a very plausible outcome—ultra rich living supported by automation after 60-80% of the less fortunate perish over 30 Years in a series of rolling catastrophes they affectionately refer to as “the great jackpot”.
I'm almost done watching Season 1 of The Peripheral tv show now. Its really good.
Yeah I thought they did a great job on that one, hoping they make a season 2.
It doesn't seem likely but stranger things have happened. Crossing my fingers.
They canceled it during the writer's strike unfortunately
I think Blade Runner 2049 is our most likely future from a food systems/decimated eco system perspective. Androids and flying cars, yeah, maybe. No natural vegetation and only the only crops being produced in greenhouses. Probably not by 2049, but I could easily see it by 2149.
most likely? not the xenomorph part of Alien, specifically, but the general message of unchecked corporate greed leading to disaster for everyone is an all-timer.
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Elysium
Instead of a space station, the ultra rich will live in a giant gated city that has all the world's latest technologies and medical services.
The rest of us will work menial jobs to supply everything for the city.
Akita Battle Angel? But, before the war or without the warrior women.
The other one I was thinking of was Hunger Games .... 12 different regions governed over by one powerful region that controls everyone else with military power using all the latest most deadly and most invasive technologies humanity can imagine.
I thought Hunger Games used at least, if not mostly, police and intelligence agency powers, much like 1984 and V for Vendetta… post Great War, at least.
I don't remember all the details of the film series ... but a feature of it was in seeing genetically enhanced, augmented animals and insects used for warfare ... killer wasps, more powerful animals, birds eaves dropping and recording conversations (the mocking jay)
Imagine a world where genetic modification became unrestricted and used for warfare and used to enhance or modify humans, animals, insects or diseases or conditions.
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^Alita
Although an Akira crossover with Alita could be fun.
Elysium
We can't get to Elysium, because we defended all our health care R&D
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Nothing that relies on AI that can pass for a competent human.
Admittedly, this is an ignorant guess, but I don’t think we’re on the right track to manufacture consciousness. I’m not even sure it can be done at all.
Mad Max once climate change really gets cooking.
Except we'll be running around like cave people with spears made of iron or copper pipe .... we might get imaginative and use bicycles or giant kites or wind surfing.
Horses might exist but they'll be too expensive to maintain and will only be available in certain regions where expertise can survive alongside the farming resources to maintain these animals
It might look like Mad Max for about 10 years maybe 20 but not beyond that.
Motorized vehicles won't be possible after 20/30 years because all fuel supplies will disappear, any stored fuel will break down and be unusable or contaminated and there will be no more manufacturing of new fuels. And if there are places producing new liquid fuels, they won't be able to supply anyone beyond 100 km of the manufacturing center. Wars will be fought for the fuel centers and chances are they will be destroyed in the fighting.
Most likely? That's a tough one. I would guess "V for Vendetta".
What would I prefer? Foundation. At least then we're multi-planetary.
The classic of course.
We're allready half way there. Neuromancer.
My company poached a bunch of people from a competitor. And I'm hoping to parlay my US job into a transfer to the EU to get citizenship. Meanwhile my company is building arguably the most complex system ever made by humans. No one employee knows enough about it to say how it works. All we know is that big corporations pay big money for it. And if a system is capable of becoming self aware, it will happen in one of our facilities as no one else has systems as big and fast as ours.
Yes, I work in AI.
Let me guess, you’re building Skynet. Just remember not to give it any minigun robots, nuclear missiles and robot factories.
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I was hoping for Shadowrun, at least there'd be magic, elves, orcs and trolls around
Deus Ex 1's dystopia probably - ultra wealthy trying to ascend humanity with the help of technology, the powers that be imposing morality and good/bad guy values onto general populace, heavy indoctrination of state/international police and general high levels of poverty. All we're missing are cool augmentations, but we've speedran the rest of the checklist pretty well
Robocop one is rather close.
The Road.
Robocop. We are almost there.... Except Robocop isnt going to be a good guy, and there will be many of them.
bloomer: The Ministry for the Future
doomer: Mad Max
"Her" except the main character is an incel with a AI waifu that is drastically too young looking of a model
also the apartment they live in is a basement
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Samantha Morton was the original voice for the AI (which I'm guessing would have been an amazing improvement), but was replaced by Scarlett after everything was recorded. Some BS about appealing to the American audience, but I think it was more about a cash bung and BJ.
Upgrade is perhaps an interesting cyberpunk dystopia given current events.
Snow Crash seems to be a favorite of the current heads of mega tech corporations.
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