I recently turned 18 and now I have a little question...

I recently turned 18 and now I have a little question, do you think we are gonna live in a Cyberpunk society in our lifespan?

To be honest I love the Cyberpunk aesthetic but I don't know if in 25-30 years or so we are gonna live in a place with such aesthetic.

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npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/06/08/481286099/drone-taxis-nevada-to-allow-testing-of-passenger-drone
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Indigenous_peoples_of_South_America
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_Americans_in_the_United_States
zerohedge.com/news/2017-11-09/las-vegass-new-self-driving-shuttle-involved-accident-its-first-day
hooktube.com/watch?v=u7pV4vxD1bs
youtube.com/watch?v=qSUkAURUU1I
sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160289613000470
biorxiv.org/content/early/2017/02/28/109678
youtu.be/ykV6z7TN4F4
twitter.com/SFWRedditVideos

Me: 21. Give it another 20 years.
But the aesthetic is dead in HK and Japan.
Only the looks of generic multicultural city #69

No, you don't get to live in the future user. You get diversity, LGBT, pregnant men, Islam and social media and instead of acquiring any wealth, you get the "sharing economy".

This is the future you chose.

After much of the globe is irradiated in WW3, it will be a daily struggle for those who make it to survive. On the bright side, the world can begin to recover once everyone is dead.

Yes, I am pretty sure of it. Except for the aesthetic, because aesthetics are too inspirational for plebs like you to be exposed to. And also without the technology, since universities and science has been subverted. Instead of cyborgs and quantum physics think trannies and gender studies.

But in all other aspects yes. The totalitarian oligarchic system with stormtroopers to push you around and you living in a tiny megacity box shared with 10 other neo-peasants, eating soylents and ramen etc.

Prepare your anus.

You're just in time for the fall, user. You get to watch all the non-Jews be bred into niggers or killed so no one will be capable of challenging them.

It's not the future he chose. The generation that killed Hitler chose this for him.

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OP here.

Besides the fact that I love the Cyberpunk aesthetic, I have always thought that the future is gonna be just like (for example) instead of having phones with 256 Gb we are gonna have phones with 256 Tb and "hover cars" like pic related, and things like that, but memes aside i don't think the things are gonna change too much tbh.

Please, you won't have a phone. You'll gave a chip implant into your brain that allows you to communicate with some people you know, but forget ever having a computing device of your own, or anything capable of holding data, that will be handled for you in the cloud.

That sounds like the things that the people from the 80's used to say about how will be the future.

Dude, in a generation western people are going to be a minority in every western country. People who have never ran a functional society are going to be the overwhelming democratic majority. Half of the western people left who will be said minority are seriously confused about their sex and sexuality and are rigorously trained in a collectivist quasi-religious way of thinking. The universities have gone from beacons of enlightenment age thinking to weird kindergartens where people accumulate debt for no reason and where obviously wrong science is being touted as something it's heretical to question.

You don't have to be Holla Forums to realize how much things are going to change in a very short time. If we're lucky WW3 kicks off. That's how insane the ride is about to get.

We've been living in cyberpunk since the 90s

And I'm not even scratching the surface here. Add in a complete botnet with total surveillance nearing completion and terror events, what is it now, every week?

If you think comfy and mellow boomer society is going to persist beyond all this and more you're crazy.

Flying / Hover cars have been "right around the corner" since the 80's, just like VR. When we actually get real VR, nobody wants it. If you can buy a used gas guzzler for less than $10k, who the fuck is going to buy a flying car for $100k? Change wont be aesthetic. It will be necessary and affordable otherwise it wont happen.

Only in the urban dystopian part of the cyberpunk, without the technology or aesthetics.

The same people that buy sports cars for 200k, it's not weird, in fact, i think they are going to sell well after some time in the market.

but we have flying cars, they cost a few million. He'll we've had boat cars since the 50s.

There are never going to be self-driven flying cars. Even coordinating airplanes is hard as shit, and they have lots and lots of leeway, monitoring and trained pilots. AI driven vehicles is a meme, at the level of bumper cars or something, and it's doubtful we'll ever get it unless the general public is banned from the roads so people don't die all over everyday.

This is the reason why you don't get flying cars, it's not a technological problem per se.

No, they'll prioritize it and make it happen even if it kills everyone. Think of the power Google would have. "Trump rallies are racist/sexist/xenophobic. Asking our car to drive you there violates our ToS and your service has been cancelled."

As I said, it might happen but the hard criterion is that no one else is allowed to drive. Just too many problems with mixing autonomous human drivers with AI vehicles on the same roads. Noe, this might happen, but I doubt it. Personally I think they exaggerate their AI capabilities to a great extent, at least I've never seen any real AI (even rudimentary) despite all their claims.

But it is within the realm of possibility.

It only has to work in a half-assed way. Even if it only handles freeways and only in special lanes and kills people often, the powerful will push for it to be a thing as it takes a huge amount of power away from you.

That would be the same that putting good human drivers and bad human drivers on the same road.

Sorry to break it to you this way OP but we are living in a cyberpunk society. And it sucks. Less glorious than you would have expected, innit?

They already exist and they are a terrible idea that will probably not ever take off.

You mean like the driverless drone taxi service in Las Vegas and Dubai?
npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/06/08/481286099/drone-taxis-nevada-to-allow-testing-of-passenger-drone

That's just a new kind of helicopter.

You wanted Bladerunner but you are going to get Robocop or Judge Dredd. But with more trannies and Islam mixed in.

So what you want is an anti-gravity vehicle.

We already are. In 1985 our current society would have been considered cyberpunk.

That's where you are wrong kiddo. (Traditionalism by any chance?)
Doesn't that apply to most people by default. I'm ethnically german and irish and I have never ran a society before. How the hell can you "run" a society. I fucking wish I had complete control over my life so you can screw off with that authoritarian rehtoric. Besides, there are forms of governence other than Social Democracy that are more direct (such as Democratic Confederalism and Anarchism) for the individual to have full power over what they choose to be without using force on other individuals.
Need to clarify that, what do you mean by "Western" and how do you classify "Western People". It seems to me that you are spooked in Idenity Politics m8.
What is your solution to all of these problems that you listed? Reformism? Revolution? Centeralizing the State and Companies? Destroying the companies and the state altogether? Sit in your armchair and complain about it while reluctantly going to your job every day to complain about this?

Phones won't need barely any storage. They'll let you do all your computing on government monitored resources remotely.

We're already living in a Cyberpunk dystopia - that's why all fiction has stopped.

He's talking about people collectively. Niggers and muslims are going to be in prominent positions all throughout the Western world, running nations far larger and far more complex than nature ever intended for them. Niggers fail to run small resource rich African countries, I fail to see how they will manage a steer European country with a complex economy (that's hard even for our people).

heh

High-traffic propelled vehicles would be inviable if not impossible.

Please, you and the other guy, go to Holla Forums or Holla Forums.
But answering just this:
You're being dense? Population genetics and achievements are a thing.

Get off my lawn

tfw no one of the survivors will recreate Rust or Javascript.

Not if ayy lmaos come after the downfall of our current order and help us rebuild our society on better foundations.

I'm sure the Chinese will step in at that point, and just execute those subhumans to take the West for themselves.

Oh boy just wait till you hear about all the underages on here

No u.

No. Non-retardation. I don't care about your commie revolutions and traditionalist fantasies. I care about rationality and reality.

Don't play dumb you cretin. Nothing I said was authoritarian in the least. That's your collectivist upbringing kicking in with a protection response. I'm not an authoritarian. I'm just stating the reality that by flooding your society with primitive tribal people things are going to change. That's not even a statement with anything against black people. It's a statement about how dumb your millennial ass is.

That wasn't even the main point of what I said, but you latched onto it like the "muh rayciss" collectivist you are.

Not at all. I've accepted that the world will change. No problem, I have a nice life in my bunker.

I don't have any solutions. I'm not sure it needs any solutions. Things change, most often for the worse. What can anyone do but live with it? I'm telling the guy who delusionally thinks he's going to live in a mellow boomer post-hippie society when everything is changing rapidly and irreversably is wrong.

i've seen that movie a dozen times and this is the first time i noticed the watermark. weird.

kek, nice that you just blend ideologies together.
You just implied that they are not capable of running thier lives democratically.
projecting much, White Aryan demigod who do no wrong.
If it is science it is not wrong, so implying that is makes it seem like you like no science.
If you said pesudo-science like what it should be called then we wouldn't be having this conversation. > b-but, no u

I FUCKING

So this is what online discourse has devolved into.

Not him, but holy crap you have zero arguments.

We already live in a cyberpunk world, look at everything that's happening with technology.
We just didn't get anything that'd make it cool.

Niggers, Chinks, Abbos, Flyps and Chicanos.
Who else could they be, faggot?

You will see corporations taking more space as states fail due to the invasion. Private police, even smaller coffins for us to sleep in when not working for them, and even more spying to "protect us" from notallmuslims. You'll get all that too, the only thing missing is the 3d hacking and samurai girls. If you want lights and low-lives there are plenty of cities full of them right now.


"When they got so entangled that they could not find a way out they played the trick of acting as innocent simpletons." - Mein Kampf.

please leave you stupid faggot
>>>/christian/

>>>Holla Forums

No, giving you the benefit of the doubt, you misunderstand what I was trying to say. I'm telling you I'm not an extremist in either direction. To me Holla Forums and Holla Forums are the same. I know this is hard for many to grasp, but to me the minutia they disagree on is overshadowed by their collectivist basis.

Well, I've never seen a democracy so I have no idea about that. I'm told they had it in Greece once, but that's a long time ago. What we have is a puppet show and a way of justifying bullshit by oligarchs as if it's some sort of majority decisions. That's not new, though. It's how it's always been. The only thing that's changed is that people now are too dumb to realize it.

I understand me having change in racial demographics as a part of the change that is coming triggers you no end. But that was a somewhat inconsequential part of the change I'm describing, not even my main point. But I do stand by it. I've never seen anyone but western and eastern people run any sort of halfway functional social structure, so why should I assume that other people will magically gain skills in social coordination and cooperation as soon as they arrive here? That's just socialist ideology, i.e. a sort of religion. Go look at some videos of parliament sessions in South Africa. That's what's coming. Now, as I said, democracy is a sham so that's not an end all, but it's still going to be quite the change from what you're used to, because most people are going to take that shit seriously.

Don't play dumb.

You have science and then you have science. You have enlightenment age science, that described predictable models and could be used to make shit like functional machines and progress. Then you have modern science that's consensus based fantasy sessions by communist low-iq university drones. This is bullshit like gender studies and psychology (and it's creeping into the natural sciences too, have been for some time.)

You can tell the difference by that the latter doesn't work, creates nothing new and has no real meaning beyond having retards employed doing "science."

This change should have been predicted (and probably was) when the academic systems changed from bringing in the small highest-iq segment of autist savants from the general populace and containing them in an environment where they were allowed to say and think whatever they wanted to what is a modern academy. That's quite a different place, where any borderline retarded mouth-breather is cheered on to graduate as long as he's able to fill in his loan applications.

That's why there haven't been any scientific progress for almost a hundred years now. What's the latest real, new practical development? The transistor? It's function and application was mapped out when people still rode around in horse carts. Sure, we've specialized and effectivized, but actual scientific discovery isn't happening anymore.

Is this just you trying to deny that you are wrong but being stubborn about it?
Hi sargon of akkad.
So, the americas are defined as western and the people consisting of it originally were a multitude of people consisting of these ethnicities en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Indigenous_peoples_of_South_America
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_Americans_in_the_United_States
and Canadian natives.
Well, sorry to say but your people are pretty much tibalistic as those on the easteren part of the globe.
so is this another "science" term where it actually means Liberal consumed in idenity politics and postmodernism but you just have to rely on contex clues?
What's here? I assume america. Can't they cordinate bettween each other as the basis of surviving and are able to be autonomous? What kind of question is this. It's not like they are deaf, dumb, and blind.
I guess I could let this slide, those are proably humanists that you are refering to and not materialists.
What do yo mean by this? seems like dribble, can you rephrase it?

Severely underated post.
My anus is already feeling it

I think it's fair to say I've tried to interact with you in a patient manner, but you are obviously either very dishonest or a complete moron and I don't think anything fruitful will come from continuing our exchange.

How am I dishonest or a moron?
Are you just going to be hostile to me this whole thread?

Because if you're not intentionally misinterpreting and twisting everything I'm saying in some strange attempt to annoy me then you're actually misinterpreting and twisting everything I'm saying because of a lack of mental faculty.

No one but you are amazed and bewildered when I use a term like "western people," or imply a concept like "science" can have a changing connotational definition.

If you're actually discussing honestly and straightforward here then you seem to have trouble with grasping basic common concepts and colloquial speech. If so you should seek to educate and train yourself before interacting with neurotypical people. Good luck.

It's my attempt to get you to define terms clearly so we don't misinterpret each other in the first place.
Where did you get the impression that I was flabbergasted at your poor choice of words.

Yeah, but as I try to explain to you, that's not normal behavior. Everyone understands perfectly well what I mean when I say "western people," except you. It's not an obscure concept. There is really no "misinterpreting" it barring extreme autism. Go read the wikipedo article on "western world," if you're genuinely confused.

When you try to make it seem like "western people" is some vague term you come off as trying to do a weird strawman meta-argument about how I'm being mentally lax in my way of formulating my arguments. Which I'm not, because as I say, anyone that's not retarded have no problem understanding what "western people" means.

Western civilization is based on the European peoples, a set of peoples who have their homeland in Europe since the Bronze age, as their final form was achieved when they received their Yamnaya/Corded Ware ancestry along with their Early European Farmer and European Hunter Gatherer ones.
These are Europeans
By this definition, what these people created is in the realms of Western Civilization. Everything, as they were and are different flavours of the same peoples.
By this notion, the Aryan India, Persia, Hittite Kingdom, Mitanni Kingdom, Armenian Kingdom, Celtic Kingdoms, Germanic Kingdoms, the Roman Empire, Hellenic Confederation, British Empire, French Empire, Russian Empire, the USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Islands everywhere and the whole of Latin America were created on the bases of a singular people, whose traditions and genetic output were crucial and unique.
Not all of these are alive today, or were yesterday - especially the peripheral spaces, considering Europe at the center.
This is Western Civilization

Science has many aspects, do you know about history of Science? From Pseudo-Sciences such as Magianism and Theology to Philosophy to Mathematics to Philosophical Mathematics to Physics branching into Chemistry and Biology, having the Scientific Method, the Kantian interpretation, the Popper resolutions.

Science today is not Science per se in many areas because it breaks its own rules of research and fool proofing.
It doesn't uses the Golden Rule of never starting with a Theory, but creating it later based on the Evidences to prevent False Causation and False Correlation.
It doesn't make Double Blind where it should, it doesn't analyse long term consequences for temporal discontinuity, it doesn't recognize the imperativeness of Physical reality and allows Metaphysics, it considers Social studies as scientific instead of them being what they are, conjectures and opinions only to an applied micro-selection, biased for demographics, sex, race, age, lifestyle, you name it.

Now, really, stop embarrassing yourself.

Okay.

Never play their game. The idea is to waste your time and tire you out or get you to make a single mistake in your definition so they can pretend they won the "debate".

There's no mistake in the definition, the guy is full of shit and betted on you being some low-level.
He doesn't have the capacity of going against it.

Max he can do is to "muh, look at those atrocities htye did, muh look at what those idiots did and were", when in fact, he should have been making arguments in favour of external people integrating.

Probably he will say: "Oh but X people sacrificed animals!" or "Oh, but they had buttsex, those Romans!"

When in fact, he'll be using argumentative fallacies by isolating things from their context, their epochs, their motives, if it was considered good or bad, etc
That's if he's a bit smart, and if he's not, he'll just flop.

These types have no arguments and are just pretentious idiots.

This wan't even my goal? What are you talking about?
The post I responded to was what I expected from him and now I understood.

I'm not the person you were arguing with, I'm a third party.
And it seems you gave up.

Against what?

Gave up on what? I misunderstood him until then.

You seem to have forgotten, so let me remind you: not ALL niggers are like that.

Would you say your racial prejudice has diminished "a lot", "somewhat", or "not at all" from having learned this?

do you know what a nigger is?

We're already in one, we just don't have the A E S T H E T I C S.


Enough of them are for us to be concerned. And even if it was a tiny minority of them who were like that it still would be a problem as it is not White people's duty to care for blacks.

You roachpols are such retards. You blame these ostensibly universally incompetent foreigners for destroying "your" oh so great society, not even acknowledging the cognitive dissonance of how people so incapable are somehow able to tear down their clear superiors.
In reality all harm they do is the responsibility of those few who let them in to their own benefit - namely the owning class because the surplus of labour reduces its price in wage, worker protections, benefits etc. and thus increases their profit margins. But the American Propaganda Machine has brilliantly succeeded in brainwashing everyone on the "left" and "right" to viciously defend neoliberalism so you just call every critic of it a communist and continue to bask in your collective ignorance.

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Also I don't believe in the left vs right, fuck you and fuck the 3rd world.

Which majority-black led nation would you call a triumph?

Earth is not hard and sturdy, rocks are hard and sturdy.

and the earth isn't made of rock

sage for offtopic shit

It's very easy to understand. They haven't torn down the superiors yet, but they are a ticking time bomb. When the older generation of say German leaders die out, the talent pool to fill their positions will be increasingly tainted with lower quality people.

Key points:

Hint: if the "owning class" isn't conspiring to silence you and is willing to promote your icons on their websites and donate money to your causes then your ideology was given to you by the "owning class". Stormfront being taken offline by a coordinated strike of multinationals proves Holla Forums correct. It is actually the Jews. Now go back to Holla Forums so we can talk about tech.

This. Once you've identified the real problem, you can work towards a solution. It's by no small coincidence that the "owning class" he alludes to is by and large composed of jews or shabbos goyim working for jew interests. They're the ones who have done everything possible to allow the rich to keep getting richer, and poor to get poorer. If the gap keeps widening, you won't have the "nice" cyberpunk like in sci-fi books, where people actually live in something resembling cities. The vast majority will live in squallid conditions in favellas and shanty towns. And communism won't fix anything either, because the jews will take control over that, exactly as they did in Russia. The underlying problem has to be addressed once and for all.

Niggers destroy everything they touch, no matter where.

Yes. I don't blame a mad dog for being mad, I blame the leftists who think we should bring millions of them to our cities and the jews who tricked them into thinking that way. Nevertheless, the dogs must be put down.
Not everyone. The center-* defends liberalism, but the extreme right is against it, except for lolbergs, and the extreme left always sides with neolibs in social matters but not economically.

There are an infinite number of niggers. The focus needs to be on the root of the problem: Jews.

OMG, THE GLORIOUS SELF-DRIVEN FUTURE
zerohedge.com/news/2017-11-09/las-vegass-new-self-driving-shuttle-involved-accident-its-first-day

hooktube.com/watch?v=u7pV4vxD1bs

Incredible, all men were killed and white people doesn't exist anymore in news agencies.

If only you knew how bad things really are in Britain.
youtube.com/watch?v=qSUkAURUU1I

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Hope for what? Living in mud shacks with stone-age technology and worshiping rocks?

Stop posting Merkel, you're drunk.

I asked the same thing when I turned 18, 12 years ago to this day.

Growing up playing Deus Ex I believed that's how my adult life would look, I was wrong. So I wouldn't bet on it.

Off on a tangent now; but when I was a child I thought VR would be better, and more common place than it is now. I always knew we'd have videophones and that they'd be mobile but the fact that they come as part of an app never once occurred to me. To be honest I never once thought anything about optional applications of any kind on phones.

Happy Birthday faggot.

Post hidden due to excessive downright tomfoolery, please learn the history of democracy and why your FUD is unecessary. Nothing was better before, take the nostalgia goggles off.

We already do. Don't call it a grave - it's the future you chose.

Are you good at Holla Forums, I ask because I wonder if a nigger lover like you has any redeeming qualities.

Well, democracy is indeed shit, but the past was better.
The 19th and 18th centuries in Europe were perhaps the highest culture of mankind (culture, not technology).
It's even attested by genetic studies that, while humans progressively became smarter and smarter throughout history, its peak occured in Victorian England, and it's now in a downtrend everywhere.
Also, people tend to forget how Europe basically conquered the whole world before WWII.

Pessimistic views of these things are often parroted and propagandised by high school/university teachers, they also love to say Monarchies and the Middle Ages were bad. Actually, to them, everything European was bad, Colonialism was bad, Imperialism was bad - even though living Africans today say that things were better when they were colonies, which is supported by every statistic you can find.

But well, the Leftist "house of cards" (no pun intended) is falling and people are waking up.
Thing is, the future will either be very good or totally bad, there's no middle ground anymore - these we can all agree in unison - things can't stay the way they are.

A good post, but I imagine it will do little to convince our doltish friend.

I didn't say it was. I was replying to a person who thought things aren't going to change with a reply about why I think think things will. That's two completely different things.

But yes, things weren't much better before. They're just not better now. Actually it's about the same. I find it amazing that grown people can retain their irrational belief in democracy when it's so obvious if you take a look around you that parliaments are not where real decisions are made in our "democratic" societies. I attribute this to the fact that most people never break propaganda holds and just go on believing whatever they were told as children their entire lives. In medieval times it was how magic spirits made the world go round. Today it's democracy and bogus science. See, same shit, new wrapping.

But at least the previous irrational and crazy system that relied on external conflict produced enlightenment age results, like rationalization of religion, antibiotics, electricity, the computer and so on. The present crazy and irrational system seems to be more about producing broken families, pseudoscience, religious revival, trannies galore and internal conflict. So in some regards it's easy to slip on the old nostalgia goggles, I'll admit it. I'll take computers over trannies any day even if it means the hard work of colonizing shitholes instead of being colonized by them.

Why are the people who use this term always morons? I usually hear it from "skeptics," where skeptic in this instance means "someone who completely uncritically and religiously believes whatever media and authority tells them."

Oh no! Not my post! Well, I hope you managed to hide it before you reached the end at least. Be very careful about letting bad words reach your brain.

What a fag.

I don't believe that 18th/19th century europeans were any smarter than ancient greeks, egyptians, or mesopotamians, much less the earlier atlanteans. The renaissance happened precisely because the ancient knowledge was brought into medieval europe, and their work was based on the older knowledge (that was largely lost to them after the fall of rome), rather than something they created out of nothing. But more imporantly, the europeans fell for the same old jewish tricks that many civilizations before had fallen for. However, the old ones actually btfo the jews who had no choice but to move and find another host to infect. Unfortunately the europeans just let the jews remain in their society and fester to the point where we are today. Well Hitler at least did try to btfo them, but the (already pozzed) anglos and americans got in the way. Unfortunately, Hitler also didn't listen to his generals as much as he should have, and the war may have ended differently if he had heeded their advice.

Seriously, what system do you propose?
Just a shitting on representive democratic systems and grouping them with other democratic systems as being inferior to some merit based on identity system isn't really helping.

You don't have to "believe" shit, it was proven by genetics.
Kill yourself.

Proofs?

sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160289613000470
biorxiv.org/content/early/2017/02/28/109678

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Blade Runner is a pretty shitty future too.

We already do, your life is just boring.

We've had this talk before, especially on /cyb/.

The masses are too busy virtue signaling to innovate. Only a select few with resources will create tech designs for their own gain and at our expense. This is forever.

we already live in a cyberpunk society.
we just don't have anything that makes it cool.

When they start the mandatory "Let the government put a chip in your hand" program you'll get your so-called Cyberpunk dream.

It's already happening and there's nothing pretty about it.

We already are. Do you not not realize what cyberpunk is? High technology, low living standards. We live in an age of cell phones and the internet and somehow still have massive unemployment, stagnating wages, and huge levels of unsustainable personal debt. There's parts of the first world that still have lead in their tap water. If you live in Burgerland you can actually go bankrupt from getting sick.

Indeed. I am very fond of the cyberpunk genre and consider it to be an extrapolation of several trends and developments of our current time. The aesthetics in cyberpunk fiction are often very interesting, but to dream of living in a cyberpunk society seems like something a naïve person would do. Cyberpunk fiction is and has always been dystopian and implies low individual power, enormous corporate power, extreme population density, intrusive surveillance, our of control tech, general human misery, etc. Regardless, science fiction has a tendency to inspire real life architecture and design, and I believe I have observed that, aesthetically, many cities are moving in that direction somewhat. But living in a cyberpunk society? Not if I can avoid it.

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Live Email Address
Account Info (Settlement)
Tax ID Number
Proof of Business Entity
Proof of Business Address
Photograph ID of Human
3 Months of Bank Statements
EV SSL Certification
Interview with BitPay
Approval by BitPay

They also offer to review your account with their compliance department to verify that the business is in compliance with their Terms of Service. Their Terms of Service includes:

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- No Cash or cash equivalents, including items used for speculation or hedging purposes (such as derivatives), and the sale or trade of virtual currencies.

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They also offer to file a 1099, since you are their employee at this point.

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Cyberpunk societies are usually Capitalist shit, and that definitely won't survive full automation.

Except that's wrong? Everyone wants VR, the only reason we don't all have a VR headset is because of its price and because it still needs lots of improvements regarding latency and resolution.


OK

Try to put two helicopters flying side by side, or one above the other.
Flying cars aren't a good thing security wise as well, just imagine the terrorism or the theft boost it would provide.
Cyberpunk is shit, the "future" doesn't exist and people just mistake fiction for reality.

2utopian4me

I don't want VR.

I looked at my high school's swim team and there's only four white kids of the 18 kids there. Everyone else is either asian or mud. Back when I was around, it was mostly white. At least there's another high school in the rural town nearby, I think the smarter whites are sending their kids either there or are homeschooling them to completely shield them from jewish influence.

As everyone else said, the economy will be that of cryptocommunism or more likely technocracy, in which you own nothing and the megacorporations own everything. Like what Adobe is doing with their cloud subscription model, everyone else will be doing it too. You will no longer be purchasing cars from a lot, you simply permanently rent them from the manufacturer. Food will be GMO filth designed to kill you ASAP, and your local farmers have been driven off their land due to (((conservation))) efforts or high taxes.

Unfortunately there will be no romantic cyberpunk aesthetic as that of Blade Runner.

If you're a true believer, I guess so. If not, nah. You'll stick to the yuppie side and apple bitchboys. Don't worry about the video, the 10 min intro is enough to give you the idea.

https ://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfRzUI8hkwo

back in 2009 we banned anyone under 25 for being underage

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You were in the cyberpunk future all along, but as the expendable megacorp drone and not the hacker.

jew

The 1100's called. They want their rakes back.

The present called, they want you to go pick up another shift.

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History, actually.

be gone, commie retard

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The aesthetic you won't have. The dystopia we already have, look at the current political landscape and social climate. Look at the impact big corporations has on culture and how they monitor and police people behavior. Read 1988, or Transmetropolitan.

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Why not 'Brave New World'?
< everyone owns everyone
< shy autistic kid hangs himself because of pervasive all-encompassing self-surveillance
< everyone else is just a weakling longing for another fuck night not elevating their society from its ashes

That's the future our forefather have chosen. We are living in it. It's up to us to tear down the mask of a true oppressor.

Read them all, and anything else you can find. Our reality is just an overlapping collage of all of them.

commie traptrip go back to /gnussr/ fagote

you know that picture you paint makes hackers way more plausible

He hanged himself because he abandoned his virtues for his desires and participated in an orgy,

I expected it, but it's still disappointing to know that people can be this retarded. Science isn't a list of factiods, but a process. It is frequently wrong, and theories are replaced all the time; more so with Social Science-- which usually isn't scientific at all.

It's like you have a warped and dumb idea of what cyberpunk is supposed to be, but since you are barely and adult, I will forgive you.


This. In some years' time you will be lucky to own anything with local storage not because "they" ban it (although it could happen, who knows), but because there simply won't be a market for it. Everyone will be using Facebook Social Storage (FSS tm) or some shit.

That's why cyberpunk characters always rig their own shit, because the shit aimed at normies and mundies does nothing but enslave your mind.

What you are imagining is the opposite. Some sort of consumerist utopia in which you are constantly dazzled by some """innovation""".
For fuck's sake. In cyberpunk you ride a now made illegal form of transportation or a self-propelled one. Why would you want to suck the corporations' cocks?

This made me more upset than I want to admit.

It's not like science would just flip on its head and automatically confirm that the world is flat or something. It's a gradual process that refines the current theories. Gravity still exists and it is acceleration at approximately 9.81 m/s

What a completely irrelevant post. Nobody ever claimed that the world is flat. Only that saying, "If it is science it is not wrong" is completely retarded.

It's just goon spam, don't give them attention.
Don't reply, just report and hide them.

I on the other hand, would be using the GNU/Linux version of Life, which while requiring a great deal of manual configuration provides a better user experience

Populations serve a purpose while labor serves a purpose (to the elites who control 99% of the capital). When AI and robotic tech makes human labor obsolete, the vast majority of humans will not be needed. This is going to happen soon.

Already robots are so fast and so accurate at given tasks it's impossible for a human to follow the motion. AI is rapidly approaching that will turn these limited automatons into general purpose tools able to adapt and learn. Just 2 years ago computer, voice recognition had massive breakthroughs. Right now, adversarial NNs are making massive breakthroughs. Soon user. Soon.

It's lightning-fast. These will be the mechanisms released on the remaining population, after carefully-planned GMO foods (time-limited poisons) are designed and released to cull the majority. The remaining souls will be hunted to extinction by drone swarms and killbots.

Those unwilling or unable to sustain themselves will be at the mercy of the capitalists and the AIs. user, helpless city noodle-arm boys are going to be ground up for animal feed by AI killbots.

No, the robots will suck ass, just like all the other technology. Even military stuff breaks constantly and needs regular maintenance, which costs a lot of time and money.
And the more complicated it becomes, the more brittle it will be.

We are already living on it, big corps already fuck our asses on a daily basis.

Just how insecure about your scientist belief system are you? Nobody even mentioned flat earth.


You don't work with AI do you? I do, and let me tell you that you've gobbled a bunch of normie propaganda and fear porn.

t. immobile infant

oh that video made by tom scott? the sex-binary denialist? yeah fun.

We already do just most people are too cowardly to dress appropriate to the conditions.

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The fact that you can't deny the holocaust publicly let alone proves it.

Did you need that much time to mentally grow up for internet?

Stormfront itself was maintained by a Jew.

No, we won't, we will live in a feudal society.

I think the biggest change in 25-30 years will be self-driving cars.

Apart from that, flying cars won't happen because there is not the level of demand that would justify the research needed.

Cryptocurrencies will not make a big difference because large scale criminals can already use cash.

Society is not about to collapse, but the far left will continue to chip away at Western civilization (and erode European genetics) unless somehow stopped. I think this has to start from within academia, which is where the far left started and is still it's main source of power.

There are also some bad things that can happen:

Mass surveillance: hopefully laws will be passed to limit this

All devices locked down/backdoored: hopefully demand for open hardware will grow. We are already seeing some progress in RISK-V

T-Thanks Minix I-I guess.

user, we already live a step away from a cyberpunk society. We already have the environmental downards spiral, chaotic cities hostile to decent living thanks to lack of planning, governments that can't and indeed don't want to provide for their people, no public spaces and a small number of massive corporations own quite literally everything, misery (both material and existential) is widespread and getting worse etc. etc.

The only part we're missing is the only upside cyberpunk has: cool hi-tech.

Then why would you make a thread, you dumb fucking piece of shit?

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You wanna know a secret OP? You could be living the cyberpunk life right now if you really wanted to. The technology is there; fairly powerful computers have been miniaturized into palm-sized laptops, little glass rectangles that you operate by touch, and even smart glasses, and all of these things are available for you to buy, modify, or make if you're willing to spend the time and money.

It's entirely feasable that you could make an armband cyber-deck and run around some shithole city using it to commit crimes against major corporations. It may even be possible for you to un-pozz a google glass or create a similar machine on your own and use that as your cyber-deck's display. From there it's just a matter of getting /fit/and buying some fingerless gloves. Boom. You're an irl cyberpunk.

The question is: why is nobody doing this already? For one thing, the people with the money and know-how to make this happen aren't the people running around committing petty crimes; they're off selling their ideas to the botnet and making money. The premise of "high tech low life" doesn't work because lowlifes can't afford high tech, and the people who can aren't living as lowlifes.

Another problem with life as a cyberpunk is that, for most cybercrimes, you don't actually need to run around an urban shithole. You can generally pull off cybercrimes from a nice home in a the country just as well, with a lot less effort. And of course there's the issue of the surveillance state: it's almost impossible for the average person to get away with anything these days. You'd walk up to Google HQ with your cyber-deck and trenchcoat on and be dragged away within minutes.

Finally, high tech isn't that cool. We thought it would be amazing, but it turned out to be a monkey's paw. We finally have little touchscreen computers that fit in our hands, except they were made to be locked down walled gardens that spy on their users. A few years ago we finally had little computers that worked as glasses, except that they looked retarded and even the normies realized that the camera was a huge privacy problem. We finally have pocket-sized laptops that are about as powerful as full-sized laptops, except that it turns out nobody wants them and everyone prefers larger screns. Little computers that look like watches? We have those too, and once again we have issues with privacy, walled gardens, and the fact that nobody wants it. A huge reason why we don't have high tech punks running around because high tech is shit. We have almost everything people in the 80s expected from the future, and it's all shit. If you really wanted to, you could make your own shit and put FOSS on it and run around using it, but you'd just end up like that fat faggot from Serial Experiments Lain who failed to impress anyone and got hit by a car.

In short, we will nevet have cyberpunk because reality is boring.

You guys would refuse the military grade cyber ware because it won’t be open source

We have shit like self-balancing scooters (hoverboards) and Segways. Hell, Steve Jobs thought Segways would be more important than the internet

But we don't see every single person on Hoverboards and Segways, In every Cyberpunk movie we usually see some form of personal transportation in the same vein being used by everyone

But we don't live in a Cyberpunk movie, we live in reality. I think the technology for a cyberpunk future already exists today, but we fail to account for human social dynamic.

Hoverboards still are prone to spontaneous self-immolation. Not ideal for a mode of transport intended for the masses.
Segways are more complicated. I'm fairly sure their reach is still too small. The new miniPlus can go 20km/h, but only for 35km. That's a pretty shit reach for the average modern city, since we gave up planning cities a century ago and now there's a few streets where you can actually buy things or have a beer and the rest of the city is just grey square after grey square (glass squares in the center)

Pretty much wrong on all accounts

SDC will be big, no doubt. Personal digital assistants (think Siri*100), automation and AI in general will be much bigger. The biggest change of them all will be that all those things will come from China and not the west.

Flying cars were always a meme anyway.

Sure, a multi-million drug deal between the Mafia in Palermo and some cartel in Tijuana will be done in cash. just lol. Besides, crypto is much more than anonymous payments.

Once we get a certain point (and it is near), the decline will speed up and the only choices will be full blown civil war or brazilification (and all the horrors that follow) of the whole west.


Mass surveillance is only getting cheaper and easier. No law will be able to stop this. The possible rewards are too juicy, the cost (financially and politically) will only go down.

Don't even need backdoors. Hardware makers will introduce more vulnerabilities as complexity rises. Just look at the shitshow right now.

Ok, retard

The original Hoverboard was actually patented. The ones that were prone to exploding were bootleg ones from China, resulting in a massive FTC crackdown on fake ones. I believe another company has since purchased the original patent and opened it up to anybody now. And it is illegal to import hoverboards to the United States now without FTC approval

Stop being mendacious, Holla Forums. Whining about "Western people" being a minority, which isn't even remotely true, has nothing to do with niggers? Suuuuuuure.

I don't think you know what cyberpunk is. Cyberpunk world's are dirty, decadent, and are always the worst to live in. At least as far as any futuristic setting goes. Also, that pic doesn't look cyberpunk at all. That pic is bright and colorful like fucking coruscant in star wars, meanwhile cyberpunk is dark and gloomy and usually consists of run down slums everywhere.

But to answer your question, yes, we are going to be living in a cyberpunk world. In fact, we already are in most ways.

user, self-driving cars are coming very soon. That's not wishful thinking, that's accepting the awful reality. The day self-driving cars become widespread will be a terrible day, because that will also be the day when laws to ban human driven cars will start to be written. It is just another loss of freedom coming.

AKA the Jews. Glad we can agree on one thing, even if you are a misguided leftycuck.

lol

You already live in one you stupid brat. Just because it's not covered in neon lights it doesn't mean it's not cyberpunk.

Cyberpunk isn't this lame neon light dystopian shit where everyones a harder. It's about the virtual world and technology being the central focus of that dystopia.

Facebook is 100% a cyberpunk creation. It doesn't need a dildo hanging off of it to be that.

We're already living in cyberpunk hell, lad.

youtu.be/ykV6z7TN4F4

So, basically you want to live in a society characterized by :


Jesus, how dumb can you only be when you're 18

Lol that's not how it is at all. This is Brave New World, lad, not 1984. There's no totalitarian government and Nazi gestapo. Just jewish controlled media overloading you with ever more trite and meaningless information until every man, woman, and child in the country has crippling ADD. Just the perfect kind of cattle needed to flash some cheap chinese toys at whenever you need more sheckles, and so apathetic and disorganized that they could never fight back even if they wanted to. You think you're not already one of them?

Look at where you are. Look at what you do all day, every day.

Fuck

Stop using big words just because you want to feel smart.

tips fedora(tm)

Do you seriously believe that there is no police force that cracks down on thought crime? Check out the UK laws where cops bust down your door for facebook posts.

not on facebook or twitter, not reading MSM (or even Holla Forums), not watching TV, not buying smartphones, shiny gadgets, or video games, not running Windows, OS/X or Linux...
anyway there's a lot more different people here than you think, and I don't want a cyberpunk reality. better keep it only as a fictional genre.

He's projecting user. Lurking a low tier political board has made him overestimate his own intelligence which is why he's coming here trying to "show everyone the true reality" despite most of it being vague deepities that lead nowhere

No, the humans will bloat, just like all the other meatbags. Even fingernails break constantly and need regular maintenance, which costs a lot of time and money.

And the more complicated humans become, the more cancer there will be.

It's not dead yet baby. I think there will be a surge of 80s revivalism judging by japan's current underground culture and the style of fashion in the modern era but it will be relatively small. The japanese are already dressing in urban corp style with sideways zippers and tech-clothes whereas in America things like colorful and flashy Hawaiian shirts are making a comeback with sleeker, modern devices.

Unfortunately, I do have some concerns and it's not about the multiculturalism fad which will fade the minute corporations realize it doesn't sell. Innovation is not the flavor of the month anymore. Nobody wants new cool stuff or to play with new ideas because what they're selling now in the consumerist culture just works. They're in competition making slightly better shitty phone computers that take nice pictures so you can show every pimple on your face to your snapchat, they don't want to make google glasses or a smartwatch as powerful as a computer as much as I wish we had that level of technology because the money's just not in it. It's up to you to start those projects on your own and it's not easy, but the aesthetic WILL work for you if you can get it made.

Let me give you some hope though.
Androids with personalities and the rise of the AI looks on the horizon.
The internet of things with bluetooth is on the rise, and as is custom ROMs in phones, which means you can get your cyberpunk UI with a little hard work!
Virtual reality helmets may lead to netgoggles or headset computers, which my thread on the idea unfortunately died.
China's mass production of reflecting technology might be secure in a low-life schway sort of way.
You have literal cyber-niggers using radios to snag your credit card off your RFID chip because the compliances last year tried to be more secure when they have no fucking idea what they're doing, so now RFID wallets are selling because you can literally beam somebody's identity and bank account from their fucking pocket.
Cards are getting bigger, 1tb or 256 on sd and microsd respectively which means a phone that counts as a personal media library to a certain degree.
Everything is wireless, you can tap into open cameras and wifi everywhere you go if you know what you're doing.
We have fucking drones like it's 2020 and electric cars are coming, which are more schway than flying cars because you can refuel with a goddamn dryer hookup.
You can roof your entire house with solar panels and have your own generator to fuck the system out of their money if you've got the saved up dosh, or even just carry a personal solar panel for your own devices.
You have electronic maps, messengers, scanners, and wiretransfers as applications for your pocket computer phone.
You can translate with the same applications and speak any language you want in a shazbot, low-efficiency manner.
Everything is processed and cheap, you can live off 3$ a day for food and be a complete lowlife if you want. There's life out there man and it's beautiful in its own way. It might not be the bulky black ice and dance clubs with sexbots we wanted but it's almost as good. Urban corp style with fake plants and skyscrapers, the finest modern decor and tons of sluts in minidresses to dance with who can undress themselves for you by showing you an album on their pocket computer.

Just keep an eye out.

this.

we already do, we just don't have the cool shit.

Your post looks like a bunch of corporate product placement mashed up together with "wow so cyberpunk very future" ramblings.
Are you paid or just dumb?

Wouldn't be cyberpunk without corporate product placement, would it? My point is; that future is now. It's all around us in a different style, and the style might even come back.

Don't think I'm dumb though, just darkly optimistic.

Your google glass part finally triggered me.
This is not something a cyberpunk would wear, but rather a corporate wagslave drone, streaming his whole life to Big Brother's hard drives for extra credit points.

I don't like nor do I own google glasses. I just think the idea of a HUD is interesting. Think about it like this: Technology isn't bad, google glasses are specifically bad because they are not in control of the end user. Chinese replicas and modified Vr helmets may finally provide eyewear in the user's control. Gotta think positive, and always be ready to tinker.

We already do, it's just not as aesthetic or as punk as in the literature.

We already are living in that future, at least here in the US. The only meaningful differences are that there aren't any flying cars or neon signs everywhere, and wearable tech hasn't really caught on as much as people thought it would, because it turns out that having extra shit to charge every day sucks balls. There are still big businesses running everything with near monopolies through lobbying power and legal loopholes which are exploited due to the corrupt government. And speaking of government corruption, there are several agencies dedicated to collecting our data and invading our privacy. Software and hardware hacking to escape backdoors is becoming more and more mainstream now because of devastating CPU bugs and management engine backdoors.

are you completely fucking illiterate?
The World Controllers are absolutely totalitarian, if you are actually using that word according to its definition. Every detail of civilian life is determined to meet arbitrary production quotas and balance the house of cards with Alphas on top. The lower castes have been stripped of the concept/motivation for dissent from their first moments of life because EVERY SINGLE CHILD IS RAISED BY THE STATE IN A CONDITIONING CHAMBER.
Betas who pretend to read make me fucking sick. There is a pretty important sequence in the book where Bernard riles up a few people at a soma dispensary, only for a jackbooted SWAT team to appear immediately, gas bomb everybody with happy sleep, and turn on a brainwashing machine that implores everybody to 'OH PLEEASE BE GOOD CHILDREN'. Everything important (weapons food tools and equipment etcetera) is being watched, and every person is inside of a merciless region-wide gossip ring. The Gestapo is there, but they get more time off and they get plenty of drugs.
The 1984 government doesn't make any sense if you take many of the things that Winston learns about it literally. Which lends to the theme of the book because Airstrip One is corralled by lies and pain, not bland assurances and orgy porgy. The World Controllers have it made. They have won completely. They do not need to 'win' by sadistically breaking people. They built squishy cattle who love to fuck them and fawn over all their words and toys. They do not squabble with twin megastates in weird symbiotic permawar - they virus bombed the old ways into extinction. I think that we might see some World Controllers eventually, but I doubt anybody like that could resist messing with the other Controllers. There would be disturbances eventually.

You should read up some Rudy Rucker, where's there societies of Programmed Plebians like yourself, spouting DeEp CoNsPiRaCy rubbish like you just did--- while the protag and such use tech to take advantage of you drones.

Shit ain't black and white nibbas.
Pick related. Temperaments, lads..

No. The moment they state they are the enemy is the moment we start planning and plotting against them. It's like declaring a global variable, you know they exist so they're easier to catch. They will never try to step in the scene like that like what secret cabals are doing right now. It's easier to destroy them when they're in the limelight than when they're behind the curtains. They will never leave the shadow that keeps them safe.
Unless they're planning on getting followers like some religion/commie/cult but they already do and they always absolutely kill those who betray. The problem is these kinds of guerilla 'leader X is ebil dictator' no longer work and anyone can betray anything for their own sake says history (check prisoners dilemma). Also, assassins exist. They're far more organized and have already planned steps ahead so they can shut you down at any moment.

kek

Its not that we haven't been warned. Why didn't we listen?

every time like the first time
Btw, isn't it the same episode where they prevent a plane hijacked by CIA niggers from crashing into WTC? Also, the show was aired on spring 2001.

What the fuck

It's like a CIA nigger dumped all his intel into the hands of those script writers.

Pilot Episode:

The episode predated the real 9/11 by 6 months. In the show scenario, a government faction remotely controlled the aircraft into one of the twin towers, so they could blame it on terrorists and start a war in the middle east.

i miss the future ;- ;

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tomorrows news today!

The future will be less like Blade Runner and more like Demolition Man, in my honest opinion.

haha well meme'd my friend, upvoted!

What WM/Theme is image 2?

Chicago95 for XFCE does similar thing, not sure if it is one.

I doubt the government would want to spend that much money on infrastructure. It seems kind of expensive and policing naughty words would get pricey.
I see something closer to Ghost in the Shell, but a Blade Runner style future is likely, too. I'm referring to the first film and pre-blackout era.

Looks like Xfce with a Redmond theme for the WM, and probably some sort of GTK theme that uses black Xfwm colors for the titlebar. Set the WM in Xfce to Redmond and pick a different GTK theme and you'll see the titlebar change its color to match the GTK theme. Also, Chicago95 is a very nice Windows95 theme - very aesthetic. The B00merang Windows 9x project looks great, too. The terminal looks like Xfce4-terminal with the black on white terminal theme. You're welcome.

I'd prefer 1984 to what we live in today 100%

1984 the book, or the year?
Because the book is where we're headed if things continue to get worse.

We already live in it if you think about it. We are now heading towards A Brave New World.

You are mistaking neocyberpunk with original 80s cyberpunk. Original cyberpunk used to be filled with neon and was colorful as fuck to hide the fact that the streets were full of shit; in a way, the aesthetics were some form of escapism from the sad reality of the world, a way to keep the general population hypnotised with pretty lights to mask the horrible truth. "Style over substance" was a pretty common theme back in the good ol' cyberpunk. Watch Blade Runner if you don't believe me: the streets are dirty, but there is a fuckton of colorful lights, specially in the "vice districts". In Shadowrun, the less gloomy and serious adventures are called Pink Mohawk, but I prefee to call them Hot Summer Night.

In contrast, the Black Trenchcoat runs, or Cold Winter Morning, is more unequivocally shit. We realized the neon aesthetics were a product of its time, and instead we decided to move onto more sober design trends, which is why it looks more brutalist for the poorer parts of the town, and more like Apple offices in the richest districts (mind you, the "Apple aesthetics", or more sober design trends for the rich have been a staple of cyberpunk for a while). There is nothing to mask the sadness in the world, which is why everything looks so dark, in order to emphatize that people have simply accepted they live like shit just like us

No, because cyberpunk is low life, high tech. It makes for good stories with lots of excitement and conflict, but as society becomes wealthier almost everyone's standard of living will rise. Barring a catastrophic rise of authoritarian government the "low life" side of cyberpunk is pretty unlikely.

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your adolf dubs say otherwise friend, yes, we are just in time for the fall, but unlike your prediction we will not be bred, we may be killed, yes, but under a condition, to ensure the 14 words or to die trying, anything else would be disgraceful

youve both got it wrong, its not this or that, its both
theyre integrated, they will attempt the passive peaceful route whenever possible, (BNW) but if that doesnt work out then they take to more aggresive and oppresive means (1984) they take the worst from both worlds and use them, they will give you the opportunity to capitulate early on, but if you refuse then you ma be faced with anihilation in the most literal sense of the word

I escaped gripping, food-insecure poverty by becoming a cyborg (modulating my hormones; plastic surgery) and marrying a homosexual financier who puts all of his energy into brain-computer interfacing. I have 3 scars on each arm / wrist from having my radial and ulnar nerves released due to keyboard RSI. I will live to see the manual control of cars in my neighborhood outlawed without special license, and then I will live 40 more years.

In other words it's Fahrenheit 451 but without literal book-burning.

basically, there is no need to burn books if you disuade people from reading them, but if they do not heed your threats then burn them with everything they are until who they were is no more, and never was

You are wanting more futuristic than cyberpunk I assume then. One aspect of cyberpunk is futuristic setting but cyberpunk is more of a feel than anything

is that the car from iRobot?

Looking at their "no local storage" policy, it seems like they plan to surgically remove the parts of your brain that hold memories. That's very sensible actually, that way you won't have to worry about infringing on their patents and copyrights and illegal memories can be immediately deleted and replaced with a history of legal memories. Very sensible.

The thing about 5G is that when everyone adopts it, we'll all have high-speed internet on the go, but most of us will die from EMF poisoning, brain cancer and the like. Invest in lead.

eh, wrong thread

2010 is calling.

Progressism is an ideology, not a reality.
Things were better before. In fact, the more you get back in time, the better it is. The world is in a state of continuous degeneracy, and the end is near (there is still little time, time for the greatest dystopia to rule, but this time will be very short).
But you have to truly be open minded to understand that, and start to read history, not from the modernist and progressist and so oriented eyes.
WW1 was the deadliest war, WW2 the worste war, WW3 will be even worste, killing nearly all of the earth population.

You'll see in the future. If you think that there is anything better in our today's society than before, truly, you're blind. You should know that the today's world is globalised, meaning that the "social classes" are not separated between countries, but that entire countries now represent entire social classes. It's not because you live in a bourgeois state, like the USA, and so USA being better than before, that it's the same for the entire world. In fact, all of the world bourgeois have moved in western country, leaving all of the poor blue collar mass in the third world, with puppets rulers. In fact, the social stat of the world is far worste than in the 19e century. And it was be explain in the simplest way: never ever inegalities went that far.
I'm no socialist, but the fail of socialism is incredible. Here, in europe, monarchies were more social than the current so called "democratic socialism".
You're blind to the modern reality of the world.

Seriously, just wait for the day when your child (if you're not yourself enough degenerate to not even have one), come and tell you that he wants to cut his dick and turn it upside down, because he feels like a faggot, but he's so much of a faggot that he wants to surrend his masculinity entirely.

This day, you'll ask yourself if this world is better than the old one.

(obviously, in term of Holla Forums, everything is just going worste, to total surveillance, backdoor everywhere, army cells of programmers specialised in cybersec etc..)

The videos the future child will get from their grandmother is their sextape.

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We already there but the aesthetic is wrong, sad times.

Childrens have always been seen in the past as wealth. You're strengthening your family, and so yourself. It's just that you have to educate them yourself. I'm lucky enough to live in a country where it's still possible to educate them at home (with government controlling that they receive proper education).

But, well, I feel what you're saying. If you can't give them a proper education, a proper future, isolate them enough from the common internet bullshit/education system, then maybe it would not be a good thing to have one.
But it's only because you can't, not because you're a narcissistic individualist fuck that can't handle responsibilities.

wealth is criminal, that's why the rich have cocaine, user

Older user here. The answer is yes in some ways no in others. Rather not share my exact age but I'll tell you that I am at least twice OP.

I've been on this planet long enough to notice change, but also how it happens. It's a gradual process. You don't just wake up one day and suddenly Every building is a 2018 modernized design. Instead, a building gets replaced or torn down and a new one is added to the background. The process is so slow that you don't even notice it until you are at least in your 30's and visit your old hometown do you realize "hey, shits starting to look a little different." In 200 Years or so, the most modern building today will be the ancient leftovers just like 1800s building in cities are considered the remnants of the past now.

For my life, the biggest difference is portable electronics. The idea that everyone would be carrying around a flat screen portable super computer would have been seen as madness when I was a teenager. Wasn't even a dream I tell you. For your life, the biggest change in the near future will likely come down to whether or not holographic technology sees a breakthrough that makes it stupidly easy to project 3D. If it happens I imagine every single commercial venue will be spamming that nonsense everywhere. Walking into a major city at night would become an interesting light show. This is likely the only major change you will see for a while.

I figure global heating, ecological destruction, or a world in which the rich just shun the lower dregs to shitholes far away so they can live in their utopia until the end of time is the future. Apathy and hatred for the lowerclass by the rich and powerful has been a staple of mankind pretty much from the beginning. Technology no longer helps people improve, it only controls them further and we are no better for each "innovation" that is shit down by corporations. Simply put, a world like Texhnolyze will be the end result.

Characters in cyberpunk genre act like its no big deal too.

Likely around the same age as me. No one considered a phone like we have today. A portable phone was considered to be on par with space travel. Just a portable phone.

People forget that the more things change the more they stay the same. The way we use tech doesn't change much, just how we interface with it. That's why VR is failing the same way 3D failed. It doesn't offer anything that 2D screens didn't already offer but caused more hassle. I can play my game in 2D, 3D or VR. It makes no difference so I pick the cheap option I already have over the expensive option I don't have.

Unless a technology makes something vastly easier or does something completely new, it simply doesn't get adopted. Cameras are a prime example. Other than pro photographers who buys a camera any more?


climate change is a terrible meme. They change it every 5 years when their last prediction fails. It's another part of the scam.

They need a new gimmick every few years so normies go out and buy new shit.

This and the rampant race mixing I see. Growing up, minorities were there, but just invisible. They kept to themselves, and now in almost every group of friends I see walking about, they're a multiracial cast. It used to be that you'd only see than on TV commercials.

Why does life have to be so horrible. Why can't we just fucking kill (((them))) god damn it.

We're stuck in this 3D nightmare, and there's only one way out.

No we're not going to get the Gibson Sprawl future. Stick around long enough and you'll realize that it's far too optimistic a future than what's in store for us.

Mostly because no ethnic group is big enough to sustain a community any more.

This is the future you chose user.

tits or gtfo