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Cyberpunk
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What is Cyberpunk?
Cyberpunk is a science-fiction sub-genre dealing with the integration of society and technology in dystopian settings. Often referred to as “low-life and high tech,” Cyberpunk stories deal with outsiders (punks) who fight against the oppressors in society (usually mega corporations that control everything) via technological means (cyber). If the punks aren’t actively fighting against a megacorp, they’re still dealing with living in a world completely dependent on high technology.
Cyberpunk characteristics include:
- Dystopian city setting where mega-corporations rule
- Full integration of technology into society, featuring cybernetic implants
- Outsider protagonists (punks) who often are very familiar with the technology around them
- Hard boiled detective and film noir vibes and influence
- Themes dabbling in trans-humanism, existentialism, and what it means to be human.
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This actually looks like an improvement in policing overall.
Shooting an unarmed man isn’t any worse than what we have today and to be fair the guy actually had a gun and not a phone or something.
More impressively, it shoots him dozens of times and every bullet connects with the intended target. Not even the window behind him breaks. Cops these days dump their magazines without any regard to the surroundings and hit bystanders or just lose most of the bullets somewhere down range.
This scene may not be dystopian after all.