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I don’t think we’ll ever be in a cyberpunk future
| Do not underestimate the stupidity of people in huge numbers.
An individual is intelligent. A crowd is stupid. A huge crowd is plain dumb.
| This is not about government, its about society and culture.
| As I see it, we just need the technology and were getting it
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| Tokyo is already Cyberpunk, just not as extreme as in the movies.
| We're already here.
| Honestly it's probably not something you'd want. Although the whole cyberpunk aesthetic is cool a cyberpunk society would be kinda shitty to live in with all the corporate government issues and all. The best I'd hope for personally is a shift in fashion to a more cyberpunk theme and the implementation of realistic robots in society (already being seen with sex bots and virtual anime girl/boyfriends on the rise lmao)
| Welcome to the Thunderdome
| Agree, human in group could be very, very stupid. There's hella lot of example if you search it in google >>153931
OP, i think we will have cyberpunk in the near future. The correct statement is "i think we will not live long enough to experience cyb"
| Police state: on our way
Surveillance state: been there for a while, people just didn't think about it until Snowden started dropping bombshell leaks going into detail I couldn't legally go into or have knowledge of.
Technocracy: See Introducing Neal's by ytcracker and look at the FCC today with net neutrality and the attempts to require backdoors to encryption. Also look into x25519 and why it is preferred in ECC.
Media mind control: Been here a while now.
AI: Still in pre-prod.
| If one wants to live in cyberpunk then should move to 3rd world countries and live there.
| >3rd World
Cyberpunk is *high-tech*, low-life g/u/rl.
3rd world is only low-life.
| Obviously you have never been in one of those countries.
| >>158919 As a 3rd worldian, I can confirm actually that there are a lot of rich people with high-tech here. The problem is that there isn't enough of that to go around. The low-life are very low-life.
So yeah. You want cyberpunk, come here.
| Wait, define Third World.
| http://www.nationsonline.org/oneworld/third_world.htm
| Op here, am I the only one here with a tiny bit of hope for humanity? I mean yes people are dumb, but I don’t think they’re that dumb to just at some point give up and let it happen
| What I hope for is a future with a not so dystopian cyberpunk asthetic. Where people are still free and technology is like an extension of our body
| >>159208 Well obviously, cyberpunk is by itself an exaggeration. The thing is we can already see the things it warns about happening
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| I don’t think people will let the government or big companies reach to that point.