I guess it depends where, and when, you look? :-P
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Times Square is tiny though, in relation to the rest of Manhattan.
Yeah, but most places (within city limits) there tends to be at least one neon signage visible from somewhere - a nail salon, a barber shop, etc. Regardless, it's a fair point that most places look more like the right than the left images (in the OP)... but not exclusively!
But it mostly comes out at night
Mostly...
The entire reason the cyberpunk genre was invented was to reflect what modern society looks like, and the inevitable outcome if technology improves, but government policy and power dynamics stayed the same.
The counter genres to cyberpunk are solarpunk (merging society and nature together) and sci-fi (Star Trek being the main example here, being a socialist, post-scarcity society)
Uh, cyberpunk is a sub-genre of sci-fi or, as it’s also known, Science Fiction.
Then whatever that specific subgenre of sci-fi that Star Trek falls into is called.
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This is actually kind of funny when you consider a lot of infrastructure refuses to use newer or better technology in the goal of maximizing profit, which the government also supports via lack of legislation.
Cyberpunk always shows some cool stuff around public transport, yet here we still are in 10 lane highway congested traffic with inefficient SUVs and Trucks since they even killed off sedans.
Cyberpunk public transport usually only exists because most people can't afford cars though, and the routes pretty much exclusively go to the general locations of major employers, sometimes only being available to employees of those companies (they still have pay a fare too of course)
You better start believing in Cyberpunk dystopias, Miss Turner. You're in one!
Also a significant lack of hot ass murder babes.
Ass-murder babes 🤤
They can be whatever you like 😎
I don't get everyone's obsession with cybernetic implants. If I needed a replacement, sure. But could you imagine today's enshittified corporate structure making a cyberlimb? 100% a massive up front purchase and a hefty subscription, especially if it's not a functional replacement.
Personally I want a functional metaverse. Full dive computing.
Gee, almost like that’s a key facet of most cyberpunk stories…
Yep cyberpunk still perpetuates the idea that corporations are highly competent and innovators, which just doesn't seem to be true in our current reality. The MBA/financial people have taken over and people that actually want to make cool stuff are no longer in control
But the excel spreadsheet says we saved .35 cents!
I had lunch with a co-worker that spoke with a stupid grin about shaving a couple of cents off of their production units in the manufacturing process. Our products costed hundreds to even thousands of dollars.
I can't believe there are people alive that are proud of this kind of stuff. He didn't even have a stock compensated position, or work in manufacturing. He was just a capitalist creep that loved the very concept of being a cheap dumpster fire.
Its to the point they have cut the corners so much that the table is round and now they are eyeing up the legs. "Surely we don't need all those legs, right?"
Yeah the neons are missing. But I have the cybernetic implants and I'm far from the only one.
You can buy them here.
What do you use it for?
I have several RFID and NFC implants. I use them for several things: I have a payment implant so I can pay contactless with my hand (the payment implant is sold by DT's partner Walletmor), I open doors, start my car without keys,, share my contact information, log into my computers and I use my one cryptographic implant for 2FA.
It's not Ghost in the Shell by any stretch of the imagination, but those little implants that you can get today really do make life better and more convenient.
Ah yes what boring times, we get cybernetics and what do we do with it? Run faster? Punch bricks? Jump super high?
Nope, pay for your coffee without a wallet. But hey at least you are still tracked and logged.
But hey at least you are still tracked and logged.
So are you, each time you pull out your payment card to pay for something, because it's exactly the same thing. Or all the time when you carry your cellphone around.
What's your point?
Yeap, that's why I said it was boring cybernetics.
If you tell me where one can get real cyber implants that give you the superhuman abilities you mentioned, I'll get them rightaway.
But unfortunately, RFID / NFC implants and sensing magnets are the best you can get if you're interested in human augmentation. it's a bit pathetic, yes, but nobody is working on anything more sophisticated because no doctor will touch operating on healthy human beings for voluntary augmentation with a ten-foot pole.
I want my tiny piece of the future and I got it with my boring implants. Sorry to be so disappointing to you.
Yeah those would be cool and I would also like to know where to get them. Its too bad we live in a boring dystopia and not the cool one.
Not implants, but there are cybernetic exoskeletons.
As an amputee, I am no stranger to that kind of cybernetics. But it's not true cybernetics in the sense of an intimidate and permanent man-machine symbiosis: a prosthesis or an exoskeleton is something you don't want and you - thankfully - take off at night.
nah, there's too many people LARPing their lives away as it is
I would argue there aren't enough
And flying cars??
You can buy them already, but they're at least 10 times as expensive as regular cars and you need a piloting license too. Meanwhile regular cars and the normal driving license are already getting pretty expensive for people.
Flying cars also need a runway, a heliport or a wide open space. eVTOLs and other flying cars are usually not small and need more space than a car for taking off or landing, especially in non-ideal weather.
Any day now. This time for sure!
Nah, people would never be stupid enough, to let such a thing ever happen.
What's frightening to me is our semi-autonomous drones and robots, including police attack bots.
If you want the neon aesthetic, you have to go to Hong Kong.
And also technically speaking, we do have cool cybernetic implants. I mean we also have uncool cybernetic implants, too, but, like, have you seen modern prosthetic limbs? Shits practically sci-fi levels of usefulness; it just doesn't have a sense of touch like they do in the fiction. Shit even cochlear implants are kinda cool, in so far as they can make someone who is deaf or close to deaf able to hear again.
I was looking forward to someday having some nice Cannon or Panasonic or Fujifilm hi-res eyes to replace mine but my insurance won't even land me decent glasses.
I miss being able to read six-point font or see more than ten meters in front of me.
Equivalent eyes would have to be way better than any camera we have today.
and...?
We got lotsa neon lights in the PNW