nah, there’s too many people LARPing their lives away as it is
I don’t get everyone’s obsession with cybernetic implants. If I needed a replacement, sure. But could you imagine today’s enshittified corporate structure making a cyberlimb? 100% a massive up front purchase and a hefty subscription, especially if it’s not a functional replacement.
Personally I want a functional metaverse. Full dive computing.
Yep cyberpunk still perpetuates the idea that corporations are highly competent and innovators, which just doesn’t seem to be true in our current reality. The MBA/financial people have taken over and people that actually want to make cool stuff are no longer in control
If you want the neon aesthetic, you have to go to Hong Kong.
And also technically speaking, we do have cool cybernetic implants. I mean we also have uncool cybernetic implants, too, but, like, have you seen modern prosthetic limbs? Shits practically sci-fi levels of usefulness; it just doesn’t have a sense of touch like they do in the fiction. Shit even cochlear implants are kinda cool, in so far as they can make someone who is deaf or close to deaf able to hear again.
I was looking forward to someday having some nice Cannon or Panasonic or Fujifilm hi-res eyes to replace mine but my insurance won’t even land me decent glasses.
I miss being able to read six-point font or see more than ten meters in front of me.
What’s frightening to me is our semi-autonomous drones and robots, including police attack bots.
The entire reason the cyberpunk genre was invented was to reflect what modern society looks like, and the inevitable outcome if technology improves, but government policy and power dynamics stayed the same.
The counter genres to cyberpunk are solarpunk (merging society and nature together) and sci-fi (Star Trek being the main example here, being a socialist, post-scarcity society)
I guess it depends where, and when, you look? :-P
Times Square is tiny though, in relation to the rest of Manhattan.
Yeah, but most places (within city limits) there tends to be at least one neon signage visible from somewhere - a nail salon, a barber shop, etc. Regardless, it’s a fair point that most places look more like the right than the left images (in the OP)… but not exclusively!
But it mostly comes out at night
Mostly…
You better start believing in Cyberpunk dystopias, Miss Turner. You’re in one!
Yeah the neons are missing. But I have the cybernetic implants and I’m far from the only one.
You can buy them here.What do you use it for?
I have several RFID and NFC implants. I use them for several things: I have a payment implant so I can pay contactless with my hand (the payment implant is sold by DT’s partner Walletmor), I open doors, start my car without keys, share my contact information, log into my computers and I use my one cryptographic implant for 2FA.
It’s not Ghost in the Shell by any stretch of the imagination, but those little implants that you can get today really do make life better and more convenient.
Ah yes what boring times, we get cybernetics and what do we do with it? Run faster? Punch bricks? Jump super high?
Nope, pay for your coffee without a wallet. But hey at least you are still tracked and logged.
But hey at least you are still tracked and logged.
So are you, each time you pull out your payment card to pay for something, because it’s exactly the same thing. Or all the time when you carry your cellphone around.
What’s your point?
Yeap, that’s why I said it was boring cybernetics.
If you tell me where one can get real cyber implants that give you the superhuman abilities you mentioned, I’ll get them rightaway.
But unfortunately, RFID / NFC implants and sensing magnets are the best you can get if you’re interested in human augmentation. it’s a bit pathetic, yes, but nobody is working on anything more sophisticated because no doctor will touch operating on healthy human beings for voluntary augmentation with a ten-foot pole.
I want my tiny piece of the future and I got it with my boring implants. Sorry to be so disappointing to you.
Not implants, but there are cybernetic exoskeletons.
Yeah those would be cool and I would also like to know where to get them. Its too bad we live in a boring dystopia and not the cool one.
And flying cars??
You can buy them already, but they’re at least 10 times as expensive as regular cars and you need a piloting license too. Meanwhile regular cars and the normal driving license are already getting pretty expensive for people.
Flying cars also need a runway, a heliport or a wide open space. eVTOLs and other flying cars are usually not small and need more space than a car for taking off or landing, especially in non-ideal weather.
Any day now. This time for sure!
Nah, people would never be stupid enough, to let such a thing ever happen.
We got lotsa neon lights in the PNW
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