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[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

We are communicating right now over a medium that those "cyberpunks" warned us about.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

"Cyberpunks" weren't warning us about the internet - they were warning us about the corporations who will control it, and through it, us. We are trying explicitly not to communicate on that medium by using Lemmy (that medium encompasses Reddit, X, the various properties of Meta and Alphabet)

Science fiction mentioning a technology, even centering around it, doesn't mean it's saying the technology is universally bad. The author highlights the dangers, but the tech itself is almost always portrayed as neutral. It's the people who use it to nefarious ends that science fiction is warning us about.

Like the people who would seek to profit off of the Torment Nexus.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

And look at how much harm this medium has done to the world in addition to all the good.

It is very bittersweet.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

NO cyberpunk was afraid of the fucking internet. The problem has always been the economic mode of production underlying it, which is unironically dystopian. Also the tech world we live in is PRETTY fucking dystopian, get your head out of your ass.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

I don't presume to know your life, but in my experience, it's not dystopian if you live in the real world too. Unless you just meant climate change.