Please report for your mandatory Neuralink™ brain implant next Thursday. The cost will automatically be added to your student loan.
In 2011, Chevron filed a civil RICO (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act) suit against Donziger in New York City, accusing him of bribing an Ecuadorean judge, ghostwriting the damages judgment against it, and “fixing” scientific studies.[34][22][26] Chevron’s civil suit initially sought $60 billion in damages which would have required a trial by jury. Chevron removed the request for damages two weeks prior to trial, allowing the case to be tried by judge alone. Chevron stated that it wanted to focus “the RICO case on obtaining injunctive relief against the furtherance of Donziger’s extortionate scheme against the company”. US District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan was assigned as the judge.[22]
We live in a cyberpunk world already.
We have all the negatives but none of the positives. No implants that would make our jobs or lives easier. No perfect memory recall. Just eternal debt and struggle to survive in techno-feudalism.
My guy, you’re not supposed to have that stuff. You’re a poor.
You’re not supposed to “want” cyberpunk for the positives. The point of cyberpunk is that having a cure for blindness is only great if your eyeballs aren’t proprietary and rented from a corporation
No implants that would make our jobs or lives easier
If you’ve got Parkinson’s (or maybe epilepsy, not 100% sure on that one) i have news
At least fictional cyberpunk dystopias are walkable.
Every cyberpunk story has characters that at least approximate the comfort level of the reader. The ones in bad shape are transitory and background dressing. Real cyberpunk sounds like a shitty existence for the vast majority.
No. Because none of us is the main character. For the average people cyberpunk sucks.
It sucks for the main character too in most stories.
A good one I’ve been picking up recently is a comic book called “The Future is ******” from a cyber security company called Rekcah. (Hacker backwards).
It’s a world that is simultaneously the most utopian LOOKING and dystopian FEELING I’ve ever seen.
#5 just came out, they have an agressive 60 issue plan. It will be interesting to see if they hit it. $4.04 per issue. $13.37 variant on #1.
https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/58829/new-publisher-rekcah-mixes-comics-cybersecurity
