Why did we not get the cool dystopia ala Gibson's Chiba City?

scarecrowbob 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I remember walking over a hill into a rave in the Utah desert that we'd set up and thinking that it actually was the cyberpunk dystopia that I had been hoping for.

That kind of stuff is around but maybe not evenly distributed or legible to large demographics.

Unfortunately, so is the rest of the vicious horrorshow, equally illegible and equally uneven in distribution.

	▲	SauciestGNU 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Interesting that you frame it as "hoping" for a dystopia. Like even in our wildest imaginations we can't envision a future where society works for regular folks.

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calgoo 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Because we got the gray box IBM version instead...

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allthetime an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

it seems like all the tech-fascists just read snowcrash and settled on that.

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apercu 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Late stage capitalism?