>Dystopia >Virus destroys the world >Strong society stratification >Governments and corporations have more power then ever before >Fastest technological and scientific development in a history of a human kind >Technology rips social and cultural fabric apart >Drug epidemic throughout the world >Technocrats >Technophilia >Ai development, virtual reality, self driving cars, sex dolls, wearable tech, internet integration, brain computer interface development, quantum computing and so on.
What do you think about this future we are living in? What future holds for humanity? Is this the end or a beginning of a golden age?
Ted fags, christcucks, technophobes are not welcomed here.
Yes, except for cell phones very little has changed since the '80s.
Matthew Cruz
The 2000s and 2010s laid the groundwork for the cyberpunk future(extreme reliance on tech, agenda 21, megacorps, beginning stages of gene editing, etc.). I believe this virus will be the catalyst to bring about the true cyberpunk era.
You can't see it being reversed? They are already talking about data caps which really gets me thinking about how our powers are trying to turn back the clock. They were really big on net neutrality before, and it looks like they are trying to get back to that by using the virus as a justification. It's strange that this technology hasn't liberated people the way it should. I've found that a lot of people are perfectly happy being censored and will also work to censor others, and that companies are just using the technology to limit the freedom of their employees instead of the other way around. Most of this stuff is just pushing people into a void but they are convinced that isn't happening by being pushed loads of propaganda on a daily basis. The virus and house arrest is a wake up call for most of these drones, if it goes on longer it will force them to wake up. If it ends after maybe one month it will just give people another stupid "survivor" mentality that hasn't really been earned.
Noah Evans
Cool thread OP, and I agree. I work in an extremely high tech career field as a tradesman operating the high tech machinery and coordinating movement of assets and I have this thought like once a week. >this is some real science fiction bullshit we are doing here, and we're using it to blow up goat herders Personally after being immersed in the pinnacle of human technology all of my adult life, I find it distasteful and pointless. I am no longer a technophile as I was in my youth, and I see excessive internet usage and obsession with trinkets as weakness. My hobbies have evolved into almost entirely throwbacks to earlier ages: lifting heavy weight, running, blacksmithing, sword fighting. I don't care about globohomo video games or visual media anymore.
I'm not the only one, which is my answer to what the future holds for humanity. More people are dissatisfied with this gay ubertech bullshit. It does not create happiness. It creates work to keep people addicted and busy. I believe we will see a massive explosion of Luddite-style communities in north and south america, and I believe we will see a hard rejection of ubertech by Mormons especially, who will lead the 'back to the earth' movement, only embracing technology as a means to feed an increasingly overpopulated world.
I do believe that much of the human population will be enslaved by technology in the coming years, either through addiction to VR-style entertainment and stimulus, or through requirements for work such as neuro-interface for programming or service sector jobs.
I believe china will be the first nation to create a caste of human computers and that nobody will be equipped to stop them.
The best thing the cyberpunk reality brings is synthwave music and retro-future aesthetics which are fantastic.
tl;dr humans didn't evolve to be happy with technological shortcuts, they need sunlight, exercise, and physical/psychological barriers to overcome in order to attain satisfaction
Yea... The whole vurus thing is shaping up to be a world changing event. Looks like our future was predetermined since the beginning of the 21 century. I mean look at how people are crying for government to save them. It's the same thing in every country in the world right now.
I worked with cutting edge stuff or whatever for a few years. A lot of it wasn't available to the public. At the time it seemed awesome but when I was removed from it I felt strange. It was almost like coming off a drug, and now when I look back it's like those years were a complete blur. It's hard to explain but it made me wary of technology. I don't think I would have realized this if I hadn't removed myself from it. I notice this with a lot of people.
Ian Garcia
In essence, our technological progress has far outstripped our capability to mentally cope with the results of this progress.
Novelty wears off quickly.
The most important development of a cyberpunk future would be some sort of advanced pharmaceuticals/therapy which can full replicate physical stimulus required by our bodies to be healthy in all aspects.
Call it the 'monkey booth' or something, where you get a daily dose of sunlight, exercise, and really great sex and then a meal full of protein and fiber in such convincing VR that your body is tricked into believe you ACTUALLY are getting what you need.
But, such a thing would only ever be reserved for the elite. The sad civilian cattle will toil in misery, as they always have. Being neon lit and getting your dick sucked by a catgirl robot won't make it magically better.
I am torn, I see the march of technocracy as inevitable. I know I need to embrace it if I want to keep my spot among the top 2% or move up to the 1%, but I also want to fuck off to a homestead and grow chickens and beans and pound metal with a hammer.
Pre-cyberpunk maybe. The definitive minimum cyberpunk tech to me is the mind-machine interface.
Although we'd be damn near utopia if the fully reciprocal ethic were stronger. People need to defend the "evil" sometimes or they'll end up being living weapons deployed even against innocents.
The difference between techno-utopia and techno-dystopia is pretty thin, and I don't think the evilest people are actually leading in the world today. There are cyberpunk-esque threats, but they're bullshit groups doing the dirty work of people they hate who they haven't the will to actually stop serving, so they're nothing.
Daniel Martinez
It's actually true. We're already at cyberpunk.
Ayden Cox
>At the time it seemed awesome but when I was removed from it I felt strange. It was almost like coming off a drug Interesting way to put it. As a contractor I take a few months off every year and I felt the same way, like I'm emerging from a really weird dream.
Finding a balance in my life while on the job required a total rejection of all the gay tech bullshit in my off hours. Now I feel much better(and look much better). I'm surrounded by hired killers wearing ubertech, but all of this shit we are doing is nothing more than a 'dry run' for the real show...
Which I believe is starting soon, in the wake of this society-changing global catastrophe.
Faggots like OP who clearly fetishize the idea of 'cyberpunk' are from the cattle-caste that will be enslaved by the reality of technocracy. The only people who will benefit are the sociopaths who pragmatically apply technology to reap reward. Being along for the ride is a romanticized ideal. It will NOT be fun if you are wage-slaving. Being one of those background characters in a dystopian novel or movie isn't a nice existence. Those people are miserable.
>crowd sources your professional and social destruction through the global information superhighway Unthinkable even 30 years ago.
Eli Price
No Neuralink is not even out yet Next century we’ll be in full cyberpunk mode Also it will be common knowledge that the kikes are in power (if we don’t stop it by then)
Well, it's not about happiness in the end (for me at least). Technophobic movements are not really possible unfortunately. Society as a whole will always embrace new tech and thus those movements will be forced to be in a vacuum (and die in stagnation) or will disband in due time. Also I can not imagine them going against technologicaly advanced powers like governments. When it comes to your distaste towards tech, I believe it's a cycle...
The mind-machine interface is real. It's called a keyboard and mouse.
You are using your mind-machine interface to communicate through a near lightspeed network to shitpost on an japanese cartoon forum full of FBI agents and paid chinese shills, right now.
>I'm surrounded by hired killers wearing ubertech, but all of this shit we are doing is nothing more than a 'dry run' for the real show...
Yeah, and that's how it is. I think what people don't realize is that cyberpunk always kind of existed, and the aesthetic is based off technology that is AHEAD. The people that have had this technology that was ahead of their time were always living a cyberpunk existence, that is what blade runner was based off of after all. It's people that have a massive advantage bc of advanced technology. People that are waiting for it have already missed the boat, because it is already out there and out of their reach. The hard part is walking away from that, but what is interesting is the biggest enemy of technology happens to be the people that can live with it. All of that money can't find the people that have rejected it, so there is power derived from not using it or at least knowing how to live without it. That is why all of us in developed countries are basically forced to embrace it. Its' a big trojan horse. At the end of the day even the people that are given the tip of the spear are subjected to it's enslavement and they are often the most ignorant of it. It's like imagined power, and once I got cut off from it I realized how weak I am lol.
You cannot stop or reverse the technological progress. It's just boomers with government power trying to work with stuff they don't understand. Also why don't you see all the good that modern technology brought? I want you to write a list of good things that modern technology brought to you personally.
Lol "technological future", but I am yet to see anything practical. Keep telling yourself that, there is no progress.
Austin Edwards
>Society as a whole will always embrace new tech and thus those movements will be forced to be in a vacuum (and die in stagnation) or will disband in due time.
The fastest growing religious/social group in the USA and south america are Mennonites/Amish, followed by Mormons (who reject lots of gay tech shit).
Lots of goyim nigger cattle will embrace 'new tech' (trinkets), but as penetration of tech grows, so too will counter-culture.
that is something so unbelievably futuristic it wasn't invented as a concept for sci-fi until the 80's. Before that you still had people writing books about space ships spitting out tape and using room sized computers.
>germany That reminds me. The world's largest religious group the Muslims, do not have a fascination with gay tech shit. They like their trinkets, but practical application is not something they care to do.
>once I got cut off from it I realized how weak I am accurate the monolithic government/corporate power structure already uses an incomprehensible technological advantage to maintain its advantage people just have no fucking idea how far its already gotten, and are distracted by their social justice trivia and save the whales bullshit
I am sure interested to see the statistics. You know religious groups really like to claim that they are growing in numbers judging by their own research.
it's true, I've been saying this for years already.
Blake Sanders
I tried going outside, picking up things i used to do in my childhood, like writing, walking, chess and such but now i'm scared. I feel genuine fear, or something akin to it, anxiety. My fantasy completely differs from reality. It's not about disillusionment too, it's just that there is no truth anymore. What? You're going to believe random anons on an internet forum? That's gay faggot shit. But most people live like this, believing in news tabloids, papers, sites etc. Their reality is surrounded by things closest to them. But if their reality is only perceived, why can't mine be made up? What if i believe to be living in a simulation, in a deus ex universe? Go outside is the answer, you won't find it there. That's the appeal of shutting myself down in my man-tower, i can believe whatever i want, but that just feels wrong. So it's my duty now, to stay inside? To not infect? Who knows that this pandemic is real if there are no valid testing equipments? Based on symptoms? Symptoms which occur in a normal seasonal flu? Psyops? Seems like the most normal answer. Overload boomer brains with too much info and they die from shock. Personolly, i find it weird how no one discusses 'Taboo things' and actually recoils at those thoughts. I don't feel disgust nor remorse in discussing the rape of countless children. I don't care if millions were killed, that happened in the past. There is only now, there is only me sitting in front of my computer and I can see everything the computer has to offer - my own imagination. But I won't give it that much power, no matter how much it tempts me. Pretending to be normal is hard, but if it was easy, then it wouldn't be fun, now would it?
Ryder Williams
>Being neon lit and getting your dick sucked by a catgirl robot won't make it magically better.
Except the future or die in suffering. It's your choice.
>Also why don't you see all the good that modern technology brought?
Good and Evil are eternal forces that haven't really been curved by technology imo. Every person with a cellphone has a counterpart that made that cellphone somewhere, it's yin and yang. The people that create this stuff use it to dominate, and that is how it has been since forever. You want me to praise it because you have been taught it has made your life better. I'll admit I'm not capable of living without it, but if that's the case then has it really made my life better? I will give you a story as an example of what it's intentions are.
The US Army started teaching it's soldiers combatives because a General was tired of hearing about how they were getting their asses kicked in bar fights. There might be another official story but that is actually how that went down. So think about that. These guys were training all day almost every day to kill, but once stripped of their weapons and technology they were getting beat up in bar fights. The organization that trained them never taught them how to protect themselves without it. Once out of that shell they were hopeless. That is no longer the case but the General that started the combatives program was going against the grain and basically working off his personal opinion and not the real intent of the military or the people producing tech.
You could also look at how the automotive industry lobbied to force americans to be reliant on cars. This leads to crazy monthly payments and stupid social myths like sports cars help you get women.
I could go on, there is also how hospitals have basically become euthanasia clinics.
I don't have to be grateful for technology, I don't have to thank the billionaires that produce this shit with tax money. Sorry, I have seen how much of a servant it has made me.
I am talking about hard growth of children per family. Amish have the highest fertility rate of any cultural/religious group in the west, by far. Next comes the mormons.
>The Amish population in the U.S. numbers more than 270,000 and is growing rapidly, due to large family size (seven children on average) and a church-member retention rate of approximately 80%." There was an Amish settlement in Honduras from about 1968 to 1978 but the settlement failed.
>seven children on average >church-member retention rate of ~80%
Now that's powerful.
You were told to shut the fuck up, chink. If you are actually a flip then your life is such suffering already that no insult I can make will be worse than your actual existence.
Take a knife, go into the forest, and try to survive. Kill something and eat it. You will discover a feeling which is undeniably real.
I choose to not suffer. I do not have tattoos or piercings, yet I get paid 6 figures to wield high technology against bronze age tribesmen. On my off day I put on my 35lb layered-ceramic body armor which can shrug off anything but .50 caliber anti material rounds and go for a 3 mile hike, observed by orbiting camera robots and stationary radar blimps. Cyberpunk.
