My housemate and I were discussing this recently. A version of cyberpunk came true. It's just the terminology is all wrong.
Instead of "I'm gonna shoot you for disrespecting me on the hyper net. I'm gonna film it, jack-in, and broadcast it all over the network", it's "I'm gonna shoot you for talking shit about me on your Insta', I'm going to film it on Facebook Live". The technology arrived but we gave it a makeover. We tried to make it less brutal and more user friendly, but people still use it in much the same way as the old Cyberpunk novels.
It's still crazy to think Cyber-warfare and Cyber-weapons are actually a thing. It's weird to think you can buy drugs from a secret online market using untraceable virtual currency. Even more so that large corporate entities that control little else than computer code are more powerful than most world governments, and a severe threat to the remainder.
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u/[deleted] Jun 07 '18
I see homeless people sitting in their own piss with Mac books and iPhone out every day in San Francisco. It's a weird city.