What's the most cyberpunk-esk thing we actually have in modern society? (hexbear.net)

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I'm drinking boxed wine tonight but I accidentally set the box in a puddle of water on my kitchen counter and the bottom of the box fell apart, so I had to just take the bag out and realized boxed wine is really just bagged wine. So now there's just a plastic bag of wine sitting on my table and for some reason that felt a bit cyberpunk to me, you just buy a big bag of booze when you want to get fucked up in Mega-City 1.

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[-] [email protected] 16 points 2 days ago

One of the things that comes to mind is ads everywhere, a lot of the time in cyberpunk fiction there's like holographic ads and video billboards and stuff and ads targeted towards individual users, long before that became viable IRL. That scene in Minority Report where the ad talks to the main character as if it knows him was still in the realm of scifi 23 years ago, but now it'd be totally possible.

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