Are we living in a cyberpunk society?
nope, post-Cyberpunk
Amazing. Google has more saying in politics than governments. It really is a corporate state at this point.
fuck off with your retarded shit
this is a marketing board
>he thinks he can ask legit questions and not just shill for hardware and OS brands constantly, in every post in every thread ever made on Jow Forums
Fuck off back to Jow Forums with your free thought and philosophical questions, this board is reserved for people who use computers and hate other people who use computers. No important questions allowed.
This. Fuck Jow Forums, this is a Nvidia GPU users group.
retard
you too
We're still pre-cyberpunk as elective cybernetic augmentations have yet to make it into the mainstream. There are some electronic old men with missing limbs trying out new neuro-controlled cybernetic limbs but they're pretty far from giving back full functionality of that lost limb.
When you see everyday people cutting off their perfectly functional biological limbs and replacing them with new ones that are all shiny and chrome we've reached cyberpunk. Because the cyber is in the hands of the punks, the outcasts, and the people on the fringes of society.
When society has fully adapted to cybernetic augmentation and they're so mundane and mainstream that it's no only expected it's also fucking boring, like even your aged milquetoast receptionist has been near fully cyberized that's when we've hit post-cyberpunk. Because now cyber isn't for punks, it's normal, the punks will have to find some new way to rebel against social norms.
Personally I've always felt cyberpunk is generally more about corporations and digitising lives in general than just augmentations. Also smartphones are actual external augmentations that are so common, that people will look weird at you for not having one.
We already have capitalism that's out of hands, corporations that are basically states, all the information is digitized, all the currencies are digitized, "hackers" and "cyber warfare", people having access to the internet at all times, people being dependent on their devices, "smart" everything, "AI" in general mass usage, surveillance 24/7, megacities, bad unemployment rates, cyber activists, advertisements everywhere, the list goes on. Things that people didn't even think about 20-30 years ago when cyberpunk as fiction became a thing.
With more and more people being the outcast punks fighting the system. Depending where you live, the world really can look like a cyber dystopia.
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The only good thread on Jow Forums does not have any bumps, fucking keep asking good questions, user. We aren't all subhumans who care about brands and blatant marketing on here!
a developer is an actual job now that nobody looks weird at anymore
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Nope. It's an Orwellian hellscape where demon trannies are touching kids and the population is so enslaved that they do nothing.
We live in a society
[Citation needed.]
>this is news to some retards
Don't research the oil, pharmaceutical, and food industries' grip on our government.
Also, don't research how "librul", "socialist" countries do evil regulation and keep those same industries in check.
What a wonderful world
>don't be evil
Thank God they changed that slogan, it would be awkward.
My wife Nico
Ohhh it looks like your tryed to spell "late state capitalism"
Cyberpunk is "high tech low life"
We went down the worst timeline since we have "low tech low life"
No, this is a much more boring dystopia
mfw I realize we are the botnet
Cyberpunk is merely gritty teenage larping. What we are living through is simply technological change, an industrial revolution, rather like the first industrial revolution when people went from agriculture to working in factories. Now we have moved on and are experiencing working in a web connected landscape. It's hardly cyberpunk all we have really done is change paper for electronic screens