Cyberpunk Rules
Cyberpunk Rules
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Cyberpunk is the most prophetic literary genre humanity has ever produced.
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Self-fulfilling perhaps. It would seem that while most of us read them as cautionary, some of us read them as a blueprint, and that is what we are now living through.
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Gotta build that Torment Nexus to please shareholders.
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Snowcrash was a dystopic warning not a plan.
Rich assholes think it was a dreamworld.
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Guys like Musk and Zuck walked away from reading it thinking that it would be pretty cool to be L Bob Rife.
Neuralink is nothing if not a high tech Nam-shub delivery system.
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Walking around wearing Google Glass and other AR devices would be like having advertising added to real life. Neuralink would be a hellish version of that black mirror exercise bike episode where you can't see anything but ads, not even when you close your eyes.
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Neuralink
wouldwill be a hellish version of that black mirror exercise bikeFTFY
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Unfortunately right now it is just a bunch of dead chimps and fortunately lots of Elon Dickriders lined up to test fry their brains.
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Having read other books by Neal Stephenson I gotta say I'm not too sure about that one, he definitely has a right-libertarian ideological bent, even if he's capable of lightly poking fun at the absurdities of a hypothetical ancap society.
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