Meta Platforms. X Corp. tell me those aren’t straight from a strangely prescient cyberpunk classic
Art creates the future. Whatever we envision we steer ourselves toward, consciously or unconsciously. A vision has gravity, and pulls people toward it. The more a vision is etched into people’s minds, the more likely we will live it.
I’m convinced Apple’s overall aesthetic is based on Star Trek: TNG. Or at least it was for a phase, until we got bored with it and took it even further.
Nah, calling the visions of aging tech bros on HRT art is a stretch too far.
It must suck to spend all day hating
Nah, it mostly sucks to have watched the tech bro crowd take something wonderful, that bemefited everyone and twist it into personal profit streams devoid of any soul and/or humanity.
I know those types are going to destroy us all, but everyone sucks so just let the bad times roll. Then the heads will follow. Rolling on the floor.
Shitty art is still art.
They’re talking about the visions of sci-fi authors, filmmakers, and artists. The tech Bros are the ones being drawn towards those artists’ visions.
It aint the same vision.
They smashed the Rose-colored glasees in favor of orher lenses, one tinted the color of money. The other a swirl of gluttony, power, and dopamine.
Reminds me of the “torment Nexus” meme
Look what has been done with 1984 and A Brave New World.
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Time Warner
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Gesundheit.
Union Aerospace
Microsoft was way ahead of everyone.
Real life is getting closer to cyberpunk but without the cool tech.
When I think about the fact that Facebook thought it was a good idea to name their online VR platform “the metaverse“ it still breaks my brain a little bit
Would you have prefered “the faciverse”?
Dude “X corp” totally sounds dystopian lmfao
Wait for the AI corps!
The meta rebranding made my skin craw. The X rebranding is dumb on Elon Musk’s part. However you make a good point.
I believe Apple got its name from the biblical term of the forbidden fruit. Microsoft has a megacorp sounding name. Will Amazon rename itself to something dystopian?
AFAIK Microsoft came from the Neuromancer novel. A microsoft is a tool in the book.
Could be wrong though, but I feel Ike that book was written before Microsoft was a company.
Bill Clinton’s “Star Wars” program.
Um… what? Ronald Reagan’s/Bush Sr.'s “Star Wars” program - LASERS IN SPAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACE
You’re about a decade off. It was started in the 80s and ended under Clinton. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_Defense_Initiative
Normal people reading dystopian fiction: “wow, the author really portrayed well the downfall of humanity if we were to go down the wrong path”
Billionaires reading dystopian fiction: “hey, you know what…”
We live in the world where Mr robot failed and gave up.
When Weyland corp announce a merger with Yutani industries it’s time to worry.
Or when Arisaka starts moving in on Militech turf.
Ngl I wouldn’t mind being chromed
That’s the worst part, we’re rapidly approaching the corporate dystopia of cyberpunk, without any of the crazy drugs or body mods.
Give me gorilla arms, damnit
I just want to live forever as a semi-coherent cloud of nanites. Is that really too much to ask?
We’ve got the crazy drugs and body mods coming, don’t you worry. Haven’t you seen the videos of people who make designer prosthetics and robotic hands for themselves?
Soon somebody’s gonna put roller skates in their feet and then it’s all over. That’s how you’ll know it’s the singularity.
Realistically speaking, we really need to start differenciating between restoring human functions (like artificial eye for the blind) and enhancements augmenting abilities normal human limits (that same eye having x-ray and nightvision).
Restoring functions, at least, should be treated as universal medicine and healthcare and be available for whoever needs it.
That requires defining normal function which is mega dangerous. Especially as we move away from default humanity.
Hope you don’t mind being billed for the whole surgery, including amputation of limbs you never asked for in the first place. Shiny stuff with soul crushing debt - sounds like American colleges.
I never asked for this. Wrong game, I know :)
Mankind Divided had a very abrupt cliffhanger. Adam needs a proper closure to his story.
There’s a company called Hashicorp that’s been in the news recently. Literally perfect
Hashicorp’s been around for years; since 2012 actually. Used to be a pretty cool company, looked up by many, like a shining beacon in the darkness. It’s unfortunate where they’ve gone to now.
I wondered what Badland was talking about, but I nodded along like I knew. Maybe the next words out of his mouth would be an explanation of what he’s just said. It could happen.
I intended to give an explanation, but since this community is pretty general, i.e. we have people from basically all walks of life here, many with little to no involvement or understanding of the tech industry, so I decided to leave it out cause it would be too much to explain.
[email protected] has given us a pretty brief explanation, but I think it can be further simplified, though would require a lot more knowledge build up (i.e. more words). If anyone’s interested, I can try to write a fireplace story, though I can’t say I’m the most qualified person to do so, or give an absolutely accurate story.
I don’t know what part your unaware of - so let me do the ELI5. They (HashiCorp) created a tool called teraform which is used for defining what servers/other infrastructure you use in places like AWS. Up until recently this was open source under the Mozilla license to something that’s not quite open, but not fully closed source (yet).
I don’t get how the name is dystopian. Is it from a book or movie or something? Search only turns up the company you’re talking about.
Could be that it mixes what sounds like a Japanese name with an English word, which makes it seem like a company from Japan operating in an English speaking place.
In the 1980s people expected that Japan was going to take over more and more American business. Japan was a major player and so sci fi written then — including that which was cyberpunk dystopian — assumed there’d be companies like “Ford” but named after Japanese guys.
Also it’s not “Hashi Corporation” it’s “HashiCorp” which implies a sort of pop-cultureification, like the company has sort of compacted over the years, and gotten less Japanese (known) and more hybrid Japanese-American-Corporate-Marketing (unknown, megacorps have shady cultures, they’re new things).
If HashiCorp were to show up in a movie, it would be in a holographic ad someone flies past.
And we are kind of getting there, but we often see multinational megacorps with Chinese or Korean names/origin.
Heh, people from 50 years ago hearing that my job is terraforming using Hashicorp equipment would be very disappointed.
Terraform it all. Pave the moon. Dairy Queens on Mars. Uber in the skies of Jupiter.
Don’t forget Truth Social. Straight out of ministry of truth.
Especially when their main selling point is that they don’t do fact checking.
And Taco Bell already exists so there’s that
u/Wogi has been fined three credits for violation of the verbal decency act.
Oh good, I needed some toilet paper. This three shells thing is bullshit.
That’s not new, it’s just new to English. I lot of Soviet countries had pravda.
When runaway capitalism is the norm and all the shareholders care about is that bottomline, then they will lean into the dystopia and be blatant about it when nobody is stopping them laughing all the way to the bank.
