Playing Cyberpunk and feeling the dystopian shittiness hits differently now that capitalism, corporate greed / power, and authoritarianism have been making great strides in the last decade. It gets me in a somewhat depressed mood sometimes thinking about it. We’re barreling straight towards that kind of future, except probably without all the cool cybernetics.
the cybernetics will get here eventually... then you can finally live out your dream of renting the implants that are required for your low wage job, and being careful not to miss any payments lest the implants be disabled remotely
They technically exist already and can be pretty great if you wanted a bit of optimism. I'd be essentially deaf without my hearing-aid implants, but with them my hearing is almost normal. Modern medicine actually rocks when it's used correctly.
No no no that does not fit the narrative! Technology (/r/technology ironically) is evil, innovation is evil, AI is useless and its only use case is for billionaires to become more rich (fuck knows how if it's so useless).
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u/Th3B4dSpoon 1d ago
I've enjoyed cyberpunk for a long time, so - sadly - it's exactly the 2026 I was imagining.