San Francisco says tiny sleeping 'pods,' which cost $700 a month and became a big hit with tech workers, are not up to code::The pods, which are 4-foot-high boxes constructed from wood and steel, made headlines after tech workers praised the spaces.

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[–] 48 points 3 years ago* (5 children)

Centered in the square carpet of green plastic turf, a Japanese teenager sat behind a C-shaped console, reading a textbook. The white fiberglass coffins were racked in a framework of industrial scaffolding. Six tiers of coffins, ten coffins on a side. Case nodded in the boy's direction and limped across the plastic grass to the nearest ladder. The compound was roofed with cheap laminated matting that rattled in a strong wind and leaked when it rained, but the coffins were reasonably difficult to open without a key.

The expansion-grate catwalk vibrated with his weight as he edged his way along the third tier to Number 92. The coffins were three meters long, the oval hatches a meter wide and just under a meter and a half tall.

-- William Gibson, Neuromancer

Cyberpunk was supposed to be a dystopian vision.

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  • [–] 23 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    Most dystopian books are now used as a manual for some politicians and rich a**holes.

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  • [–] 15 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Ready Player One was a dystopia and Zuck was so enamored it became required reading for building the "Metaverse".

    Billions of dollars can't buy you the ability to sense irony I guess.

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