Cyberpunk
What is Cyberpunk?
Cyberpunk is a science-fiction sub-genre dealing with the integration of society and technology in dystopian settings. Often referred to as “low-life and high tech,” Cyberpunk stories deal with outsiders (punks) who fight against the oppressors in society (usually mega corporations that control everything) via technological means (cyber). If the punks aren’t actively fighting against a megacorp, they’re still dealing with living in a world completely dependent on high technology.
Cyberpunk characteristics include:
- Dystopian city setting where mega-corporations rule
- Full integration of technology into society, featuring cybernetic implants
- Outsider protagonists (punks) who often are very familiar with the technology around them
- Hard boiled detective and film noir vibes and influence
- Themes dabbling in trans-humanism, existentialism, and what it means to be human.
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Is the 'cool' part NOT supposed to be the fact that you have circuits of raw power embedded in your very being??! Because we are headed towards Capitalism Hell whether we have cyberdecks or not. I would personally much rather have highly useful body mods in the Capitalism Hell...
Do you really look around at the current consumer tech landscape and think the mods available to anyone but the 1% would be useful?
We already have people with artificial eyes that got shut off when the company that made them went out of business. Similar issues with other implantable medical devices.
so true for the average person, buy this is why I use linux, you really just need programmable hardware that can ibterface correctly, the software is were the magic happens...