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Aren't we living a era of pre-cyberpunk now?
| and we, a bunch or common people, are forced to swallow the same bs everyday, afraid of being judged by ignorants and old-fashioned, close minded humans. And we desperately prey for an external force to solve the world's problems, and we are tricked into this when seeing people on tv, with "good intentions" hiding their true self...
Don't you think we're almost there, the only thing missing is the aesthetic of cyberpunk: flying cars, androids, cyborgs, laserguns, etc.
| What you guys think? Give some opinions about this topic. Let's talk with pure honesty, even if some ideas clash bc of differences.
| But at least cyborgs and androids are starting to be a thing, and nobody seems to really care about the implications of these things.
Enormous companies are investing millions on the development of artificial intelligences but they don't report a thing even when they said they would (Google for example), and the implementation of bionic organs for human enhancement is happening right now, mostly in militar ways.
| >>110167
Yeah, you're right. I totally forgot about the surgeries people made using bionic organs. I remember watching on TV about an old blind man making a surgery to replace his eyes to bionic eyes. It was really bizarre seeing the man wearing the glasses connect to a control via a cable...
And people using robotic arms to replace the one they lost or never had...
| I think we're right in the end of the transition to cyberpunk, tried to find differences but could only think of the fact the world is a lot less stylish and a lot more indiferent to otherwise polemical scientific advancements
| >>110199
People are indiferent about science advancements bc they're too occupied trying to satisfy their ego wit cheap entertainment.
| I think we are living in a /cyb/erpunk world already. I mean with giant corps already controlling the masses with forced advertisement, media which pushes their own agenda (not only in us of a), the learning curve for actual good programming, hacking, electric engineering, etc. and the mindless sheep that take everything in without questioning, we truly are living in a cyberpunk world
| The Dark Cyberpunk future of 2020 is only two years away. Better start getting of the grid and getting your Cyberware now, before the ISA sends BuReLoc to take you away to the FEMA camps.
| https://i.redd.it/efzleiuxeo901.jpg
The cyberpunk future is now.
| I live in Hong Kong which many ppl think is pretty aesthetically cyberpunk, but we only have the bad things (insane wage gap/ hypocricy/ crowded streets/ generally cold-hearted citizens...). I personally like the cyberpunk aesthetic but it sucks living here for the above reasons and the scenery doesn't even look cool without photoshop.
| It's really hard for me to concept the real life cyberpunk bc these things don't exist where I live.
The only thing here in my town is rain...all day...every...single...day.
At least it's just a calm, non-destructive rain.
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| We live as if we are in a cyberpunk society already.
| >>110153
We almost are, from a social standpoint.
I think the governments and political forces are on par with us mortals when technological progress hits another milestone. When there's new capacity to change our lives around new tech, they are in the dark most of the time. Not to mention that most of the politics are elderly people, and many IT-corporation lead faces are younger tech savyy people.
| They are already moving out of governments' reach with small stuff like secured messengers, EA's videogame gambling that failed to slip under radar, and youtube bloggers which is basically a job but the wage is not certain, prone to monetisation schemes and often regulated by AI-algorythms alone
| Depends on what do you expect from cyberpunk, I believe. Huge corps like google and alexa are already controlling minds of millions and billions of people. We already have no privacy whatsoever and only a tiny impact on government. Ah, and neural networks are practically simulations of a human brain. Unfortunately this shit came without flying cars (instead they're self-driving and can be remotely controlled by manufacturer, SURPRISE), cool neons and synthwave. But yeah, welcome.
| There's a lot of talk about soon-to-hit exponential development of AIs, not self aware ones, the ones that we could hook up to our cars, factories, and our brains.
But when something like that becomes reality, most likely it'll be the corporations who had been investing in it since, like, 2005 or even whose research departments made it real.
| We kinda already have the Internet hooked up to our brains via smartphones which most people can afford and have. 80s and 90s kids generation is now used to having Internet access 24/7. This is a big part of our lives and yet both the device and the Internet are not very much under control of our elected elites, or even dictators who are at least somewhat concerned about everyman
Funny when you think that Google had the means of almost nationwide surveilance before NSA had
| >>110914 I may have written it weird.
I've meant that its quite easy to get into this kind of stuff because all the resources for are easily accessable even for total beginners
| >>111938 thanks! I agree, you don't need help from the government to access those resources either. I mean there IS school but it's not mendatory for learning tech stuff. All you need is for the corps to sell you a device and internet access.
Plus there's a ton of people who already see learning online as superior to school. I guess the next milestone would be not needing the government's diploma to get a job in what you learned
| Next step is the government going crazy trying to create a dystopia with cool rebels and plasma guns(that would be the most awesome thing ever)
| >>112082
Where I live, there's no need of diploma to be accepted in a job, just a small certificate of what you had learned in the past.
I've decided to do codecademy to add on my curriculum, as well learn new languages, and improve my broken english.
| Where I live some diplomas are worse than not having any because there are tons of crap universities
Though a diploma from a goo university or college is really useful
| >>112166
If you're going to work on a huge business company, then it's necessary, since it's ruled by a bunch of old farts that prefer the traditional education.
However, if it's a small independent business or a 3rd party company, there's no need for that.
I live in Brazil, by the way, but this place is no such thing as sacred land. It would be like Battle Royale, but less violent and more strategical to survive every day here...
| Maybe I have exaggerated on the Battle Royale, buy the only thing I can say is that: Brazil is not for beginners.
| San Francisco Bay area is already cyberpunk. Rampant poverty, hi-tech, massive class divide, and I work in IT and still struggling to pay off my debts.
| IT paying good is just a legend, ypu hear about it everywhere but nobody knows an IT guy that makes a good money without being a CEO or better
| >>112245 Interesting, I'm from France and you're kinda fucked if you want to work for anyone without a diploma here. But that's not counting experience, I guess if you could justify some you might still get something? Idk actually :/
| I know this is way off-topic, but I'm really curious...how many of you are actual girls, and which of you are guys?
| Im definitely not a dood, dood and if I was a dood, dood I'd definitely deny it dood, but maybe leave a hint dood I'm a:
Guaranteed
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| >>112358
I'm paid above the US's per capita GDP working in Cloud Computing, housing is just expensive and I'm taxed off the roof to subsidize megacorps while I struggle to get decent health & dental care and using outdated public transportation through decaying infrastructure. Yet, I'm also the reason why the Bay is unaffordable.
| >>112751
How can you be struggling working in cloud computing? you guys make as much if not more than your typical programmer for less work
| Cloud computing is just another trendy word for server systems. Nothing to see there really. All it boils down to is webservers, mailservers and vps, reachable by one or more public ip addresses. Nothing that hasnt been available since 2005.
I worked in a company that spread a lot of prolaganda and advertisement with the word cloud in it, but all what it was was servers for renting vps. Before it was done by Xen or jails or chroot. Now it is done by openstack/kvm. That is all.
| In all cases, it always means 'your data are in someone elses computer'. Dont get fooled by the names they use. It is just fashion of naming so the same thing appears as something different, a different box for the same doll inside.
| >>114208
You mean last mile connectivity where you live. That is the only thing that has changed for some people. The rest is exactly the same.
| Bruh, IT is norm pay. Only big leaders get a good payroll. Besides, if I move up I'll have to pay a large obscene tax, so I'm just chillin in the middle class>_<
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| This may not be directly linked to cyberpunk, but the internet is a two edged sword. While you may be able to get infomations faster and make friends from across the world, people are also growing more isolated, becoming less expressive.
| 2024 will mark the true beginning of the Cyberpunk era. Screenshot this.
| >>117443 she's female John Titor
She came and came from the future to warn us of the dangers of the time travel
| More than never we are in wahtvi call new-cyberpunk era
| >>112358
Programming in finance (esp. quant work) can pay extremely well. If you work for 3sigma or another comp like that then you'll make hundreds of thousands. The hours are extremely long tho.
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| I mean, the world seems to be leading a similar way.
Technology is, not only our lives easier, but also leading to addiction, where now you can create a perfect persona to mask the real you, and few people are capable of expressing themselves out and loud in a repressive/perfectionist world. Politics are only getting more complicated, and, maybe soon or late, but a war could happen just bc of differences between their doctrines and opinions.
Hypocrisy is spread around the world,