It's a genre that was made in the 80's which means it's always outdated (Japanese economic dominance, the Soviet Union still being a thing), but I do wonder how a Cyberpunk world based on present time would look like?
The Cyberpunk Genre
Nicholas Parker
Benjamin Scott
but what exactly is cyberpunk?
Liam Richardson
Rainy neon cities at night with big oppressive megacorporations.
Xavier Peterson
Sure Japanese economic dominance is out of the question but they just got replaced by the Chinese and there's several Chinese cities that are basically Blade Runner LA complete with massive industrial zones spewing out massive amounts of pollution that literally blots out the sun for weeks on end from time to time. Pic related meanwhile is what they consider to be hip and contemporary street designs.
Jose Jones
Mega-City one from Dredd 2012
Brayden Gomez
>how a Cyberpunk world based on present time would look like?
Apple store sterile aesthetic
Ayden Wright
Cyberpunk at its core is a techocentric dystopian future. It's typically shown in a highly urbanized environment but this is not strictly necessary. Overpopulation often plays a part, but again, this is not strictly necessary. The three pillars of cyberpunk are: It's the future, technology can do amazing things, shit mostly sucks still. The aesthetic of rainy, neon-drenched, overdeveloped cityscapes is often conflated with "cyberpunk" but it's entirely possible to tell a cyberpunk story on a sunny, automated farm, far away from the city. In the end, it's about telling honest human stories in a near-scifi setting.
Gavin King
>Sure Japanese economic dominance is out of the question but they just got replaced by the Chinese
Azns can't into economic dominance because they aren't free-thinking societies. They CAN take whatever the current tech level of the time is, refine it and incorporate it into their highly organized and obedient societies. But they can't meaningfully innovate. They can't make that next creative leap to a new paradigm. They can only wait for the innovative and creative free societies to make new discoveries.
Easton Powell
So if the west were to somehow stop developing cool new tech the Asians would just take existing designs and refine it past our level and then use their absurdly oversized economies to dominate the world?
Parker Hill
India is the true future of human progress and development
Grayson Morales
China's economy is absurdly small for as many obedient workers it maintains. Hilariously small.
And they don't take it to the "next level" they just thoroughly incorporate it into every aspect of their society. Rarely do they have the "best" in any technology, they just spread it around everywhere til it's ubiquitous.
Benjamin Bennett
The Matrix and Mirror's Edge is basically a modern take on the cyberpunk genre, the 80s version doesn't make sense past the mid-90s a modern "cyberpunk" setting deals with 'societies of control' and false reality because thats where we're likely heading.
Joshua Morris
The West stopped developing cool new tech when Steve Jobs died. America has been actively trying to stop China and Korea (Huawei, Samsung, etc) from completely overshadowing the western OEMs, and with apps like TikTok, they're about to overtake the west in software development too.
The West doesn't have anything that compares to Tencent.
Matthew Hill
>but it's entirely possible to tell a cyberpunk story on a sunny, automated farm, far away from the city. In the end, it's about telling honest human stories in a near-scifi setting.
That's post-cyberpunk dude.
Easton Morales
>The West stopped developing cool new tech when Steve Jobs died.
Schwarbage opinion. The fact that you consider the Tik-tok app to be an amazing technical achievement speaks volumes.
Jason Kelly
>I do wonder how a Cyberpunk world based on present time would look like?
Fly to LA or NY and you can find out tomorrow
Jordan Perez
It's outdated because most of it is already happening.
Nolan Collins
Also, China continues to flounder just trying to make high-end semiconductor chips. Their big government sponsored efforts keep going bust.
Not even more advanced ones, just ones up to the top current standards.
Oh but they have fucking Youtube for 13-yr old narcissists, better watch out!
Caleb Kelly
>chang
>chang
>when you are not working in a sweatshop, do you eat a dog?
>chang
>chang
Austin Carter
>amazing technical achievement
What amazing technical achievement has America made since Steve Jobs died?
And popularity is not necessarily indicative of technical complexity either, but that doesn't matter when the TikTok format is more influential than whatever newfangled faggot technology you think has been developed. Your metrics are bogus, and so are you.
William Butler
True cyberpunk is the dystopian near future as imagined by someone in the 80s through mid-90s. It's like the Western genre; there are a lot of possible spins on it and subgenres but a true Western is fundamentally confined to a specific era.
Daniel Brown
Cyberpunk is retrofuturistic now, just the flying cars space age Jetsons 50s imagined future. Read Mark Fisher
Nathaniel Lee
Again, you are measuring by how widespread something is, not how advanced it is. Yes, the Azns can take a concept thought up by the West, manufacture it cheaply with near-slave labor, and flood the market with it, but they don't actually innovate themselves.
Their society and culture has the same deterrence to innovation that the Soviets had to efficiency and hard-work. It's just not incentivized at a fundamental level. No one is going to try and become the next Jobs of China because the government actively tries to disrupt and deter it. Ask Jack Ma.
Hunter Young
>Asked what technical achievements America has done in the last decade
>"Uh uh uh Asia bad and smelly!"
Lmao, kys.
Thomas Peterson
tiktok is only impressive because it doesn't adhere to western "values"
it actually does what it says it's trying to, you can load it up and within 5 minutes have it configured to never show you ugly niggers or retarded political brainwashing
what silicon valley service can you say that about?