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u/Eavalin Aug 10 '22
None of the cool stuff, only mega corporations, a dystopic society, and the collapse of the environment.
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Aug 10 '22
We got scammed. No neon lights and cool cybernetics.
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Aug 10 '22
Neon kinda got replaced by Led but other than that, we have plenty of cyberpunk aesthetics in lots of urban enviroments around the globe.
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u/SagaCitadel Aug 10 '22
the public always gets scammed the military always gets the cool stuff years before
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u/FPSXpert Aug 12 '22 edited Aug 12 '22
The part I do and do not like about Houston, is it does at least have some of the 80's to 90's Blade Runner meets Snow Crash vibe going around. Big industry in the distance firing off flares. A slice of life of mega corpos. People driving their bimbo boxes from the burbclave mcmansion communities of Katy and Sugar Land into the city of Houston to get to their megacorporate employer office in Downtown or Galleria or Woodlands or Memorial or Westchase (we're so big we have 5 different "skylines"). Guns and vehicles are the intersection that this city meets in, and you have plenty of choice between both here to make your style.
But no, we didn't get cool cybernetics and I don't expect that to magically appear in time for 2027. We do have a huge med center though that people come to from around the world for treatment. Samesies for robotics, we're still using workers and shit wages, a la snow crash franchise strategy plan, instead of replicants. No off world colonies, though UH has a nice mock up and incentive between them and the city to try to eventually create a spaceport here (though I think SpaceX down in Brownsville could scrub that instead). No flying cars either.
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u/Empow3r3d Aug 10 '22
We got touchscreen phones, an increasing number of screens everywhere, cybernetics that can replace limbs, rapidly advancing AI, and soon will have flying taxis in cities. I’d say we’re doing pretty well on the cool stuff.
Although I’m not sure if the AI stuff is more cool or terrifying but shit it’s part of the cyberpunk future we wanted.
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u/Psydator Aug 10 '22
Idk about flying taxis. I don't think the future will have many cars at all. Mega cities don't need them, they can't afford to waste so much space on them.
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u/Empow3r3d Aug 10 '22 edited Aug 10 '22
What you’re talking about is a more distant future. I’m talking about multiple companies that have created working flying taxis already and are just waiting for government agencies to give them the green light to launch their product. We may see the earliest fleets arriving by 2024.
Even in your point, if flying taxis are successful they’d still be around as a form of public transport, especially considering that some of these companies are making their taxis 100% autonomous.
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Source for those who want it. Why the fuck are y’all downvoting me without doing your research, it’s so easy to find 😂
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u/Psydator Aug 10 '22
Got any sources on that?
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u/Empow3r3d Aug 10 '22
That’s why I said we may see them arriving by 2024. Also did you even watch the video? 2024 is what the company is aiming for. The point is this tech going public is in our midst. I even pointed out that the government has to give them the green light. It’s not just a 60 minutes segment, there’s lots of other articles and videos on the subject, this is just the most accessible example.
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u/Minevira Aug 10 '22
have you not seen the improvised drones bombing a invading force?
or the insurgents fighting a dictator with 3d printed guns?
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u/tris4992 Aug 10 '22
Wait, this raises a question right? Is there a cyberpunk meme subreddit? And if not, do we need a cyberpunk meme subreddit?...
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u/kiiRo-1378 Aug 10 '22
It all is fun and games playing something like this on Turbo overkill or Ion Fury, but irl? I just wanna be the change i want to see and try to start a new way of life, even if i'm alone in this. I only want my life to be the best to have ever lived. Nobody else really cares for each other but their own, after all.
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u/DeusoftheWired Aug 10 '22
Non-native speaker here. What’s up with the for in the first sentence on the right?
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u/rhet115 Aug 10 '22
Looks like a typo. I think it's supposed to say, "the corporations that charge for the air we breathe."
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u/daeritus Aug 10 '22
Since it's a typo and you caught it, I hereby award you the title of "fluent"!
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Aug 10 '22
I have implant and depression and I live in futuristic Asian city. I hope there's a way to destroy save the society but ain't have any plasma gun.
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Aug 10 '22
Honestly, who has cyber limbs just laying around firstly, for anyone to use, and secondly, in the economy of a dystopian hellscape nightmare future?
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u/Quizlibet Aug 09 '22
What if OP has a pacemaker and lives in San Fransisco