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I want to be a cyborg but after seeing how tech, especially software, has developed (like, I don't even really want to buy a new car because how tf am I gonna fix it), I don't think I can trust it. Imagine if your ears' firmware just stops being supported.
Any cybernetics would have to be built for me by a hobbyist with a workshop full of Raspberry Pis or something
You didn’t pay your subscription for your enhanced eyes, so you woke up blind this morning.
Nah, you get downgraded to the essentials plan: 20/40 eyesight, dry eyeballs, ads on your peripheral vision and random eye twitching throughout the day
Yeah, plus the "cutting edge" prosthetic tech we currently have is mostly overhyped marketing.
There are about a dozen powered prosthetics I always see on social media that always look really cool and the "patients" always go on and on about how useful it is......What people don't realize is those "patients" are being paid by the manufacturer, and usually part of the deal is that they get the limb for free.
They don't tell you about having to wear a heavy battery pack that only lasts for a couple hours. They don't tell you that you have to pre-program routines like tying your shoe laces. That you have to purposely concentrate on flexing residual muscle groups in your limb to activate those routines. Nor do they tell you that the majority of patients who own those devices usually revert back to a manual prosthetic for functional tasks, or just choose not to wear a prosthetic at all because they can achieve more function with their stumps.
While prosthetics have started looking more futuristic and functional, unfortunately we haven't really advanced any technology that actually improves function and utility since the late 90's. And I highly doubt we'll ever make a prosthetic that provides more utility than the limb it's replacing, not in our lifetime at least.
Plus, a lot of them just end up being no longer supported at all. Oopsie your Planned Obsolescent Leg needs replacing again
Jockey literally lost his exoskeleton due to end of life.
People with bionic eye implants are going blind again after the gadget expired inside their bodies. More than 350 people have a discontinued retinal implant in their eyeballs. The invention was once a cutting-edge option for restoring sight, but it has been replaced by newer technologies.
Yeah, if everyone started turning into a cyborg, walking becomimg a subscription-based service would be just a question of time.
Any cybernetics would have to be built for me by a hobbyist with a workshop full of Raspberry Pis or something
And by "or something," you probably mean 3d printers.
I have an artificial lens in one eye (like a contact lens that's been glued in place) that has built in uv protection. Not cybernetic as such, but I'd say it was adjacent.
Yeah that sounds cool af
Lol, And all it cost me the ability to focus on anything not exexactly 37 inches away.
Fun fact, many of the intra-ocular lenses and contact lenses that provide UV protection do so just by the properties of the material they are made of, not any special coating.
I like the word "burgerpunk" to describe our dystopia not as neon lights and cool sexy cyborgs but more the aesthetic of a DoorDash ad.
I hate it, but it's perfect.
Amazing. What's more burgerpunk than making AI images about burgerpunk game concept art?
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Prompt:
!physical game cover for latest game called "burgerpunk" inspired by boring, mundane real world problems. Collage of run down strip malls, boring office spaces, high gas prices and sad people stuck in traffic. "Super boring, 10/10 - IGN" !<
Fuck, 2020 would have been so much more bearable if our food had been delivered by The Deliverator. You know, a highly qualified professional.
...Instead, in this region at least, the app economy bros employed a bunch of befuddled immigrants and also screwed them over contract-wise. So it's the sad kind of cyberpunk, not the funny kind of cyberpunk
Meanwhile IRL cool cybernetic implants: I'm sorry our company has been bought by Amazon and support for your eyes has been dropped. Please refer to a local surgeon to remove them at your expense.
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We're approaching a cool cyberpunk future but can't even get wet streets with reflective purple neon signs 😔
Talk to c/hydrohomies if you have trouble with streets not being wet enough
Seattle has the wet streets covered. Someone just needs to install some signs.
We are not even going to get dense cities like Night City. Imagine how much worse the cyberpunk dystopia is going to be with a 2.5 hour commute each way from the suburbs along a mega highway.
Look, us YIMBYs are trying our best, okay?
Do NYC, Seattle, SF, London, Tokyo, and all of the other dense cities not exist anymore?
None of those are even close to the density of Night City. Tokyo has a density of 6,363 persons/km^2, compared to Night City's density of 65,000 people/km^2.
Also those are 'old' cities. They have historical reasons for increasing density. Night City is a city founded and built by mega corps, represents the 'new' world that the mega corps want to build. My point is that in our world, the type of cities that are being built and our mega corps want, are all suburban spawl.
This is fair, if we had neon shit and cybernetics it would make the world a little cooler I guess.
Nah, they'd make it like repo.
Reality check: Life's more "flickering office bulb" than "cyberpunk neon dream." Guess we're stuck in Blade Runner: Budget Cut Edition.
That real "we have cyberpunk at home" aesthetic
there are plenty of cybernetic implants that do not work anymore because the company that makes them refuses to update them so that part is totally already a thing
there's zero punk in our current society
I honestly believe the closest thing to real world cyberpunk is the anti corporate / foss / selfhosted digital sovereignty "ideology" that lemmy coincidentally is a part of. For the rest, like cyberdecks and body augmentation we just have to wait a bit.
If you got a powerful tablet and installed Kali on it, isn't that effectively a cyberdeck?
Sweetie, we're all being punks right now using pirate reddit. What's more punk than undermining oligarch control of social platforms?
Depending on where you live, you can also have the cool neon aesthetic.
I wanted star trek but I got cyberpunk.
Fuck neon, LEDs, all that bright shit spoiling the night. Razor-sharp splashes of light pollution is not an aesthetic, they are an eyestrain and an ad space. My homies enjoy old districts and wilderness where they can relax and see the stars for once.
That doesn't sound very dystopian
We do have Elon Musk brain implants now. Any takers? Didn't think so. You do not want to go cyberpunk
We also have killer robot dogs and illicit cloning labs irl now.
All of the bad stuff, none of the cool stuff.
We already have cool cybernetic implants. We also have even cooler corporate greed and a massive lack of right-to-repair laws so that you can get stuck with a deactivated implant!
My grandpa's pacemaker has beef with being left out of the, "cool cybernetic implants," category.
In real life we had cybernetic implants shut down by corporations because they weren't profitable enough.
I don't think there's anything more cyberpunk than that.
We could definitely use more neon though. Might have to look into WLED and light strips again.
If you're going to make me live in a dystopia, then there better be a cool aesthetic at least.
Also you don't have cyberdecks with 40mm microCD drives but smartphones without expendable storage.
