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Signs of cyberpunk in daily life
| Cameras every-freaking-where
| Data has been the resource in all times. Only now we are able to quantify. But since always there have existed spies and informants, for thousands of years. What they collected was information, aka data.
| >>114751
True, but what I found so compelling about that quote was that it implies that we're living in am age of a "gold rush" on data
| Drone delivery, Politicians influencing people with machine learning, powered prosthetics entering more regular use
| Power lines everywhere.
| A picture I took in the Philippines with massive, high tech, glowy neon skyscrapers in the background while the foreground was covered with shanty villages just underneath.
| There are those people in detroit that have started building their own wifi in response to the local government not providing any networks
| >0P
>Everything you said there sums up the place I live in.
Difference is though, there are more police in the streets of Dublin.
Unfortunately no neon lights yet :<
I love neon lighting.
| 1. Electronic surveillance, stalkin is way easier now
2. Consumer are owned by mega corporations (like disney, google, apple). We keep buying what they set.
3. Technological advances becoming more of a double-edged sword (Artificial intelligence comes to mind)
| In war, we're starting to only use drones and rc robots. Almost everyone's data is in some server, even by just looking up a tree in goggle.
| Politics is a business and those most qualified don't want to bother with it.
| A couple of States are getting so fed up with their ISPs gouging them that they have started building their own infrastructure
More people treat access to data, and information, as a human right. This has the capability to improve education a whole lot!
Compare to a traditional educational model where high costs can be a barrier to entry for many.
Niche communities that used to have few members now can easily communicate worldwide. You could live your entire life in a hugbox.
| Emphasis on plausible deniability.
Advanced prosthetics superior to natural limbs
Those light up christmas sweaters with the light bulbs built in.
| Browser history tracked sold and used to create personalized ads. Also: smartwatches
| Browser history tracked sold and used to create personalized ads. Also: smartwatches
| I won't be happy till we're living as the movie "Surrogates" was.
| The free flow of information that is only becoming more fluid. The fact that I may lay on my bed and read a PDF of a book that was given to me by the closest friend I have ever had, despite the fact we never met or knew each other's real identities. I so often live through my technology- it displays to me the status of the outside world, that beyond my physical existence.
| Oh, and that so many may partake in it so long as they have some basic resources and the interest. Coding is becoming more accessible than ever, and technology is integrated into our lifestyles more every day.
| I'm taking a cyberpunk class right now and learned there are 5 main attitudes to a cyberpunk thinker.
1. Future oriented
2. Information on gov't and corperations should be free and accessable.
3. People shouds be able to keep their personal privacy.
4. Decentrilization of gov't
5. "Surf the edges" as Rushkoff put it. Always keeping up to date.
That being said, supposing these are all true, the advancment of tech and computer culture going on could be cyberpunk. Character limit
| The fact this useless world is rotten to the core
| the fact that without internet you're pretty much disconected from the hole world, almost all of media and news papers shove shit downout throats and with out a cellphone or computer you can't comunicate with people
| >>119011 I'm thinking this could be some kind of super intelligence predecessor. It seems in the future people will be able to expand the mind installing some kind of AI module directly into the brain (at least some professionals say so), then those who can't afford the implant or don't want to use it will be pretty much fucked, unable to decode new more efficient languages and use other emerging tools, but it is quite dangerous for the user too.
| Imaging when someone finds a way to hack your brain, it also will become likely to happen since many people could have all the powers of an artificial intelligence.
| Internet of things EVERYWHERE.
Fridges. Cars. Phones! Weaponry! Cities! Sex toys!
Everything is watching you because people make money knowing E V E R Y T H I N G about your habits. Nobody makes analog devices anymore because the data is so LUCRATIVE.
Some of these devices tie into each other for a cohesive experience. So your smart home is your personal assistant is your boss is your mistress.
What do you think gets learned about humanity?
| >>119024
No. Brain hacking is still one of the most advanced concepts in scifi as a genere and it will not be part of cyberpunk in a long time yet. Government grade resources material maybe, but low life.
And AI is also nowhere close to what we think of when we hear 'intelligence'. It is just a term of its own for a certain kind of computing theory, just analogous to a sea horse being a kind of fish, not horse.
| To people afraid od AIs I can attest that at least around October 2016 IBM watson was still dumber than many low life amateur chat bots(not even talking about full fledged AIs just chat bots with preset answers)
| Vernor Vinge wrote a famous article in 93 about the point at which a being surpassing human intelligence will appear. He believed it would happen between 2005-30 and that the most probable way this will happen is not through AI but IA (intelligence amplified), basically human machine pairs. Considering we all have our own personal computers on us at all times and with Internet access we have the sum of human knowledge at our fingertips, I think the technological singularity is us.
| >>119672 There's a good chance much more advance AI exists within the deep state ultra black budget world. All that tax money that goes "missing" could be used to fund it
| I can find and pay for basically everything (idk how in other countries, but some shops in mine got option to buy groceries online and it'll be shipped to you in short time) and get it without moving myself from PC. My smartphone with Android is fully automated by few programs and I can modify it freely. Only thing I wanna is live AI
| >>119781
This is what is REALLY scary about the future imo. Just imagine a single human being becoming one with a machine a la Ghost in the Shell and wanting to "absorb" other Artificial Intelligences, essentially becoming this superintelligent cyborg transhuman that will rule both man AND machine. It's like what a lot of Cyberpunk themed shows and books try to explain: The problem of the future is not the technology itself, but how people misuse it.
| >>123231
A human + machine singularity that encompasses all human minds and synthetic intelligence (the term AI has become lame and ridiculous in what people think it is and what it really is).
Now that would be awesome. This is actually the next to next level of evolution. The next one if of course cyborgs and bioengineering, in practice thus achieving immortality.
| Well cyberpunk in Va-11 Hall-a is science fiction than science fantasy.. so I think the games do a good job already predicting what a possible future could be
| Game does*
| I wouldn't be surprised if VA-11 HALL-A could take place in 2030-40 instead of 2070s. With the current massive understalk of high-grade GPUs from those >ASSHOLE< miners... A massive flow of inexpensive high powered small computer would become the norm.
If anything I think the only "Sci-Fi" of the game is the Lilims and talking dogs. Everything else is "Extremely Near Future" at best.
| >>124169
Honestly Lilims don't seem THAT far off. It wouldn't surprise me if we started seeing somethijng similar to them by the time 207X rolls around.
| GPS in phone, in car, in watches... Very few people go through their day without being tracked and having all their movement logged.
| >>126014 you can buy a small GPS tracker very cheap, it's easy to program and even if you don't know how to program you can still use ready-made apps with them
Even the buttons on your shirt can be GPS trackers(not really, but close enough)
| Need to know more
| This is my fave Cyberpunk thread! I like all of these posts.
| Cybercock bros report in
| >>125838
Lilims are quite far off. Otherwise you would already have at least some simple dolls in the market able to hold simple conversations with 5 year olds. But they are non existant and there is a reason for that.
A Lilim ai would be that kind, raised to the millionth power.
| >>128016
Eh, with the exponential rate at which computer tech is advancing, and how far we have come already, I think 50 years is in the low range of feasibility. Certainly not likely, but enough that I wouldn't be surprised if they popped up.
| Guys my cyber cock keeps squiffin oil please send help
| Need more neon lights
| Everyone working in computing industry has a lot of cybdrpunkish episodes during the day. And without noticing they can spill it over with friends and others who are not as tech savy. Setting up a printer, exporting a file to adifferent format, resetting an ip phone, scanning their laptop for viruses with a boot usb... These kind of things while normal for the actor, can seem very cyberpunk to the others around.
| >>128497 definitely needing more of Rhode
I don't If anyone said it, but the growing anxiety and fear rates on the population for me, at least, is very cyberpunk-y
| Then i must be the most cyberpunk dude in the world
| When i noticed that trump was erected.
| There idea that every social media app has to be linked to your location (just go to town one day and track down a friend on snap maps fuck man) watches too, WiFi shoes and what have you, everything needs to know where you are 24/7
| The*
| >>133102 Oh? You didn't know?
>Takes your shoe off, cuts into the sole, pulls out a box with the word "Wi-Fi" written on it in sharpie
All shoes have wifi
>Awkwardly tries to force the shoe back onto your foot but it takes a while. When it is finally on, it flops around because I fucked the sole up with my knife
Ok bye, love you
| Idk some weird concept in which the more you run the more it charges your phone in real time, but it required your phone to be using its data or something I barely remember
| Living in London is pretty cyberpunk, there's a huge divide between the upper class business people and the lower class manual/clerical labour people. A few weeks ago they were projecting a holographic flame on The Shard.
| Thats it? No more cyberpunk in our lives?
| i dunno if anyone's mentioned it or not, too much shit to read through, but:
diy cybernetics, aka, biohacking. nfc/rfid chip implants, magnet implants are the most popular, but there's others out there. if diy cyborgs aren't cyberpunk, then i dunno what is
| >>136870
You are writing in a topic like this before reading?
Now aren't you full of yourself a g/u/rl. It is a clear sign of cyberpunk already, people like you.
| i skimmed it :^(
| The world is more connected than ever through the internet and related technology, but for some of us, we are more alone than ever.
| In New Orleans(Luisiana, USA) there was a huge "vaporwave carniVAL"(party). Silliness aside, I think vaporwave is kind of an interesting blend of tech future nostalgia and the anxiety of a rapidly changing present.
| P.S. Future Nostalgia is a good band name no stealing
| *Louisiana
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| Where do you see Cyberpunk in daily life?
For me, there's three things.
1. How we are using our smartphones as extensions of our bodies, which one could see as an external organ, or a new, technological sense with which we can "feel" the internet.
2. Corporations growing more powerful
3. Data as a resource. As Angela Merkel said "Data is the gold of the 21st Century"