Cyberpunk (the genre) prior to 2020 felt like a warning. Now it feels like getting our face shoved in the dump we took on the carpet and being yelled at “look at what you did…bad!!!”.
I mean, the biggest warnings of cyberpunk fiction have always been about corporations consolidating more power than nations. With that in mind, the genre hasn’t been a warning for decades; just a mirror to our existing capitalist dystopia.
I honestly feel that we didn’t truly hit that Cyberpunk dystopia until the past fifteen years. It’s not that multinational corporations weren’t a problem, its that now we have megacorps truly influencing every minute and every aspect of our lives to the point that it is impossible to tell if any thought that crosses our brain is truly our or if it has been somehow tainted by the omnipresence of megacorp influence.
It is ironic that I typed that on my cyberdeck (smartphone) while listening to a conference call with a megacorp (Microsoft) and wearing a auditory neural link (Bluetooth earpiece), then uploaded it to “the net”.
JoMiran@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
Cyberpunk (the genre) prior to 2020 felt like a warning. Now it feels like getting our face shoved in the dump we took on the carpet and being yelled at “look at what you did…bad!!!”.
djsoren19@lemmy.blahaj.zone 20 hours ago
I mean, the biggest warnings of cyberpunk fiction have always been about corporations consolidating more power than nations. With that in mind, the genre hasn’t been a warning for decades; just a mirror to our existing capitalist dystopia.
JoMiran@lemmy.ml 19 hours ago
I honestly feel that we didn’t truly hit that Cyberpunk dystopia until the past fifteen years. It’s not that multinational corporations weren’t a problem, its that now we have megacorps truly influencing every minute and every aspect of our lives to the point that it is impossible to tell if any thought that crosses our brain is truly our or if it has been somehow tainted by the omnipresence of megacorp influence.
It is ironic that I typed that on my cyberdeck (smartphone) while listening to a conference call with a megacorp (Microsoft) and wearing a auditory neural link (Bluetooth earpiece), then uploaded it to “the net”.
Sabata11792@ani.social 18 hours ago
Present day, present time.