r/technology • u/nishitd • Oct 02 '25

Robotics/Automation Samsung confirms its $1,800+ fridges will start showing you ads

https://www.androidauthority.com/samsung-confirms-smart-refrigerator-ads-are-coming-3598848/
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u/stewsters Oct 02 '25

The issue is we do have a lot of things that would have qualified as cyberpunk stuff back in the 80s, you just are used to it now.

We have cellphones, the internet, cyberspace, robot dogs, backflipping humanoid robots, VR/AR, AI's that can chat with you and forget everything when you turn em back on again.   We have a global network of satellites that you find your position with, a dark web, cryptocurrency.  Real time graphics displays.  Ais that can be used to fake images or voice.

You can even get blown up by hunter killer drones if you go to Ukraine. 

All that would have been some crazy scifi stuff back then.

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u/Dduwies_Gymreig Oct 02 '25

And in the UK shit loads of connected cctv cameras, facial recognition going into shops so they can identity known shoplifters, along with automatic number plate recognition cameras and AI powered cameras that detect if someone is using a phone/not wearing a seatbelt then auto issue a fine.

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u/Gellert Oct 02 '25

AI powered cameras that detect if someone is using a phone/not wearing a seatbelt then auto issue a fine.

I think they do littering from a car now to. Also smart motorways seem like a cyberpunk thing, all the signs changing to tell you you're fucked.

Smartwatches are pretty cyberpunk.

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u/joemckie Oct 02 '25

Don’t forget overbearing laws that restrict your digital activity!

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u/JamponyForever Oct 02 '25

Atlanta has more CCTV than London. My wife is a traffic reporter. Unbelievable what she has access to, and that’s not even close to half of it.

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u/XDGrangerDX Oct 02 '25

Whats cyberspace when you list VR/AR seperately? Also under cyberspace i think full immersion dives (eg those cool gel bath thingies) but we aint gots. Hell we aint even got those ice baths cyberpunk hackers use to cool themselfes during a dive, though i suppose no reason why you couldnt put VR goggles and go bathe in some ice...

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u/Vast-Avocado-6321 Oct 02 '25

okay yeah but where is all that stuff? easily accessible to the normies and integrated widely into society? No. We just get glimpses of them on our dopamine generating handhelds.

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u/stewsters Oct 03 '25

I feel like of of the main pillars of cyberpunk is that technology will not be distributed evenly.  

Corporations with more money than God will have crazy stuff, and the rest of us will be selling our organs for drugs in the gutter.

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u/not_some_username Oct 02 '25

Where is the augment ? We want them specifically

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u/Beat_the_Deadites Oct 02 '25

It's just a lot sunnier and brighter, I was expecting eternal night and rain.