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Cyberpunk in the Nineties (www.streettech.com)
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Bruce Sterling writing about Cyberpunk.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This one hit home for me:

We're just not much good any more at refusing things because they don't seem proper. As a society, we can't even manage to turn our backs on abysmal threats like heroin and the hydrogen bomb. As a culture, we love to play with fire, just for the sake of its allure; and if there happens to be money in it, there are no holds barred. Jumpstarting Mary Shelley's corpses is the least of our problems; something much along that line happens in intensive-care wards every day.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

And that was before AI existential risks became non-sci-fi.