Mx. Luna Corbden 🐸Thought #cyberpunk depicted an *unrealistically* dark future where the best jobs were contract gigs, space was privatized, corporations became techno-feudalists in total control of weak governments, drones roamed the air, every corner of the earth was saturated in pollution, and everyone had blue hair.
Prof Wordsmith@corbden
Hey, I looked forward to the blue hair thing.
Hey, I looked forward to the blue hair thing.
@ProfWords That’s the joke. :)
FeralRobots@corbden
_ShAtTeR_ comics, in...what...1984? I'd spent previous summer working as a temp & boy that thing resonated. (Most of my career up until about 10 yrs ago was as some kind of temp.)
See also _American Flagg!_. (Yeh, I read a lot of stuff on First.)
cyberwitch.ioThe future you described may not be as far-fetched as it seems. I think that with the rapid advancement of technology, the merging of humans and machines in a Borg-like collective could indeed be an inevitable next step in our evolution. As we witness the rise of AI, neurotechnology, and bioengineering, the boundaries between biology and technology blur.
@cyberwitchio We have the future I described. What we got wrong is that many of us thought it was unrealistic.
Greg Leunig@corbden I feel bad for Gibson and Stephenson and other 80s and 90s #cyberpunk authors. Imagine writing an exaggerated dystopia highlighting the failures of our current system... only to live 30 more years to see the exaggerations become reality.
@booksthatgoboom I’m not so sure they thought they were exaggerating. My guess is they extrapolated in earnest.