Comment on Who needs stars in a boring dystopia?

toasteecup@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• Wogi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Or cyberpunk. Or watched Blade Runner.

  Sky holograms are pretty common in corpo dystopia fiction. And maybe future non fiction. Jesus

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  • captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The problem with cyberpunk fiction is that some people have no media literacy and a lot of money and decide their company should do things from their favorite stories.

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    • Chariotwheel@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I keep laughing when Palanthir comes up. Like, why name your surveillance company after these things that were used for bad in the stories.

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      • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        When i learned that there is an actual real life food company that’s called “soylent” i just felt like going to bed and skipping the next couple days, like what the fuck

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    • InvaderDJ@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Lack of media literacy is becoming a huge problem for society. People either think fiction is reality or just literally don’t understand satire, parody, and cautionary tales.

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      • SnipingNinja@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        The Torment Nexus meme is too real

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    • Zoboomafoo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      My problem is that it’s too real to enjoy

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  • Chariotwheel@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I mean, we have some clear aspects of what was feared. I think the closest country currently is South Korea, given how powerful the corporations are there.

    It goes to the point where the main thing young people work towards is the Samsung Aptitude Test, there are whole cities that basically just belong to Samsung. From the factory to the supermarkets where the factory workers shop to the flats the workers live in and spend their time off using Samsung devices.

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    • captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      So company towns that haven’t started issuing scrip yet. My country tried that for a while. It ended in literal class warfare.

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      • toasteecup@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I’m curious what country, I want to learn up on some history.

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