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What do You think will be the cyberpunk in a cyberpunk future?
| Considering cyberpunk is about things that seems like it's going to be a problem in the future, taken up to eleven... I'd say it'll be something about the natural environment?
| Megacorps are already happening, and they're only gaining in power.
| Humans aren't very capable of visioning other than the immediate future, but I'll try. Post-Cyberpunk can go two ways: the corps win and population goes down by 90% and Earth becomes a utopia, or the hackers succeed and anarchy, whether orderly or chaotic, ensues. The latter is probably the answer to your question. After all, what happens when megacorps fall? Maybe everything will be open-source and human ingenuity will flourish. Or we go full circle back to square one.
| >>144390
When megacorps fall, it is only a matter of time till the next gen megacorps arise from the chaos. Different from the previous ones and not containing the faults which brought to their demise, but big structures nonetheless, with other traits and faults, yet unknown but which will become revealed as time goes by and the new concepts and ways settle in.
| Probably something retrofuturistic, when enough people notice how everything goes to hell they maybe are going to look back for old ways of living without leaving technology behind.
Maybe forestpunk, fishingpunk or ranchpunk.
| Amishpunk ftw.
| A world so driven by the rural way of life that even urban-dwellers are hicks. Sounds stupid. And the names you gave even more so. But makes for a good setting.
Realistically though, no. People congregate in cities more and more. Nobody wants to go to the rural areas. And few can afford or even have the will to. Especially considering agriculture will probably be automated in the future too.
| Agriculture is already automated, have you ever seen farm fields these days? Just from the sky they're so off putting, giant circles all over to help the machinery harvest by itself despite the obvious land loss. The corporations found some excuse like "it saves water" to shut up people.
Either way.. post-cyberpunk is probably going to be about those dystopian futures where robots take over.
| Skynet is already late. Where are the godamn terminators we were promised to have by now?
| If cyberpunk is the norm it will no longer be "punk" therefore cyberpunk will no longer exist. I think the equivalent -punk will be a return to nature.
| We're slowly walking towards it, just look at how some small countries are so developed and rich, and lots of big ones aren't even close to it, or they don't have enough population, if I was to predict a future, the future today is a powder barrel, and it will explode in an unusual place, South America, it will be a revolution against the old norm, fighting for the old ways, its strange, yeah, but after that, its the dystopia we know, remember my words...
| >>145165 Something is punked when a certain technological marvel is spread out into every nook and cranny of the society of the setting. Nature is not artificially developed, so it can't be punk.
Besides, Naturepunk would mean we'll be Elves sans the magic.
Also, an equivalent punk of the future would be whatever is controversial at the time. >>144390 and>>145028 givegood answers.
| >>145165
imagine 200 years in the future. Internet children boot up a new image board called /trees/ and fantasize about living in forests with no electricity
| Post-cyberpunk would just be post-apocalyptic, so like horizon zero dawn
| Reality
| For me, the appeal of cyberpunk is it's contrast with our current reality in a way that seems plausible. I don't think there is a definite answer to this question. It depends on how you personally view cyberpunk. What will fill that void depends on your perspective. Maybe utopia, maybe a more sinister dystopia. Or maybe there just won't be a cyberpunk in a cyberpunk future.
| People like us...we're already living in a harsh dystopian timeline. All we need now really is a way to hack in/out of our world, or a way to have into theirs. Unless there is a great war, much of civilization will remain as it is, and technology will usher us into a new age of not trusting anybody
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