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Cyberpunk is now
| It's interesting - in that we don't directly connect our minds to the net, as was predicted, but perceptually we are always linked to it. We've outsourced most of the functions of our mind to our smartphones. I wrote a short blog on how we're basically already androids from a philosophical perspective:
https://www.markeverglade.com/cyberpunk-book-movie-news-review-blog-post-2
| >>6b13e0
That's a good blog post because it's true. Our phones are extensions of our minds today and with Elons neuralink around the corner the barrier will be even smaller tomorrow.
I also think the cell phone in itself is very cyberpunk. They're so accessible that everyone has one, even the poor. It really fits the high tech low life staple from the books.
You can hack with them too. Carrying around a pocket sized hacker machine is very cyberpunk.
| People like to meme about Watchdogs but I'd say on the whole, it was a pretty accurate picture of our world today.
| >>646860
I'm not >>646858 but basically Watchdogs is kind of like GTA, but with hackers who mostly use their phones to control everyday things. Pretty much like how you have there are stories about people hacking and controlling a random electric car from their phone or laptop, that's basically what Watchdogs is all about, but of course also with the added fighting corporation type shit, if I remember correctly.
| I know this senior at my school who has a hacking watch that he uses alongside his phone. I don't know all that it does but the one time he showed me it, he used it to add fake wifi connections and also slow down everyone's connection to the school wifi.
To add to the topic, I'd say that there's a number of things we don't notice today like smart homes, actual (runner ups) flying cars, AI-driven cars and drones.
| Well, of course we are. Actually all the concepts and technologies described in older cyberpunk books already exist int that way or another, in the future they'll just be more developed
| >>647358 bruh it's be like virtual reality, prosthetics, robots and space flights, augmented reality goggles,I've even seen a vid of an electronic ammo counter for Glock pistols, whch looks like it's straight out of a halo game. Artificial intelligence is being developed. Huge skyscrappers, entire cities of contrasts -- like, you know, Hong Kong and others. Do I have to go on?
We've just get used to it, we've seen these things since the birth
| I mean I've named kinda obvious examples
| oh, you also shouldn't forget the titanious power of governments' intelligence services and the huge influence of worldwide corporations like Eppla, Gloogle, Feacboock and whatever, which are fully capable of knowing virtually everything about any of their product users and even about those people who don't have an account on their sites.
| >>647370
Yes, please go on. That is the purpose of this thread after all.
I do think you're stretching your point a bit though. Space travel, prosthetics etc are all older than cyberpunk for example. When prosthetics becomes better than the real thing and people start to "upgrade" then we'll see true cyberpunk.
>>647374
These companies are cyberpunk as fuck. Especially considering the people who fight them are network security consultants/technicians and hackers.
| >>647388 well, cyberpunk novels did describe these thing too. Nowadays you can have not only simple prosthetics, but the cool robotic-like ones, which you'll should charge up from the socket. I've heard of some russian company which develops prosthethics for children. The point is that every limb has a cool and unique design, so that the children would've felt themselves special in a good way, like a cool cyborg or a superhero rather than a crippled and unwanted child
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| In many ways we're living in a cyberpunk universe similar to the ones from literature 40 years ago. Many people on this board seem to believe so. In what way is this true? I thought maybe we can list all the stuff we recognize from fictional works that have become reality today.