▲ 1404 ▼ Big Tech companies are finally getting the names we thought dystopian megacorps would have (sopuli.xyz) submitted 3 years ago by salarua@sopuli.xyz to c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world 227 comments fedilink hide all child comments Meta Platforms. X Corp. tell me those aren't straight from a strangely prescient cyberpunk classic
[–] jtk@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 3 years ago* (1 child) I don't get how the name is dystopian. Is it from a book or movie or something? Search only turns up the company you're talking about. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 11 points 3 years ago (1 child) Could be that it mixes what sounds like a Japanese name with an English word, which makes it seem like a company from Japan operating in an English speaking place. In the 1980s people expected that Japan was going to take over more and more American business. Japan was a major player and so sci fi written then — including that which was cyberpunk dystopian — assumed there’d be companies like “Ford” but named after Japanese guys. Also it’s not “Hashi Corporation” it’s “HashiCorp” which implies a sort of pop-cultureification, like the company has sort of compacted over the years, and gotten less Japanese (known) and more hybrid Japanese-American-Corporate-Marketing (unknown, megacorps have shady cultures, they’re new things). If HashiCorp were to show up in a movie, it would be in a holographic ad someone flies past. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] neutron 1 point 3 years ago And we are kind of getting there, but we often see multinational megacorps with Chinese or Korean names/origin. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 11 points 3 years ago (1 child) Could be that it mixes what sounds like a Japanese name with an English word, which makes it seem like a company from Japan operating in an English speaking place. In the 1980s people expected that Japan was going to take over more and more American business. Japan was a major player and so sci fi written then — including that which was cyberpunk dystopian — assumed there’d be companies like “Ford” but named after Japanese guys. Also it’s not “Hashi Corporation” it’s “HashiCorp” which implies a sort of pop-cultureification, like the company has sort of compacted over the years, and gotten less Japanese (known) and more hybrid Japanese-American-Corporate-Marketing (unknown, megacorps have shady cultures, they’re new things). If HashiCorp were to show up in a movie, it would be in a holographic ad someone flies past. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] neutron 1 point 3 years ago And we are kind of getting there, but we often see multinational megacorps with Chinese or Korean names/origin. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] neutron 1 point 3 years ago And we are kind of getting there, but we often see multinational megacorps with Chinese or Korean names/origin. permalink fedilink source parent