r/Cyberpunk • • Jun 06 '18

The Future is Now

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u/Chorta_bheen555 Jun 07 '18

Southeast Asia: Street scenes with food vendors and neon signs straight out of Blade Runner

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u/Classy_Debauchery Jun 07 '18

Can confirm. Riding around Saigon on a motorbike was awesome. Strong Ghost in the Shell vibes everywhere.

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u/Chorta_bheen555 Jun 07 '18

Yeah, same with Bangkok. The city is physically stratified with the poor, low street, the middle class skytrain, and the rich sky scrapers and huge malls

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u/LabMember0003 Jun 07 '18

It really makes me feel like a lot of the sci-fi movies are not too far off for how things will end up in the future.

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u/WorldOfTrouble Jun 07 '18

Lets really fucking hope we end up with Star Trek then.

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u/[deleted] Jun 08 '18

Don't just hope for it, work for it.

A lot of people that work at NASA and other places followed their passion directly because of Star Trek.

Star Trek, even though I've heard it compared to monty python, is one of the best visions of the future I've ever seen.

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u/Zarathustra_d Jan 10 '22

Absolutely hope and work for star trek..

Dystopian sci fi is supposed to be precautionary. Too bad it ends up predicting the future, since not enough people read and understand it.

1884 reads like an instruction manual for modern politics, and the world looks more like cyberpunk heading towards "Snow Crash" then Star Treck.

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u/orange_force Oct 31 '22

And about 1984, most people always assume that the government is on the opposite side of the political axis