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You Americans have this? Good Lord
We are basically a cyberpunk dystopia without all the pizzazz at this point.
Considering the shit our current corpos would do to your brain most of the “dystopian” visions from old cyberpunk sounds pretty optimistic.
Tbf, there is a small gorup of DIY bio-hackers somewhere out there. I saw a doc about it a few years ago. Nothing like super major but like installing an NFC chip in a hand and stuff.
That’s so accurate, but landlords have jacked up rent so cities are little luxury zones for the rich only so only they can enjoy the few cool things about cyberpunk while I’m stuck living like a medieval peasant in bumfuck nowhere Ohio.
First I don’t wish Ohio on anyone, even my worst enemies.
That still tracks. Us poors can’t even afford the disassociation treats that the movies and books suggested that the cyber-poors would be enjoying. I just wanna be the homeless guy with the beanis-pump gooning himself with VR in the first episode of Edgerunners. Is that too much to ask?
The pumps have little screens on the that play adds and yell at you. They used to just use speakers to play the adds to the whole complex, but now they’re right in your face. There’s lots of surveillance, too, since they want to be able to prosecute you if you somehow manage to get gas without paying. It makes sabotaging the screens complicated.
That truly sounds annoying. So what next? Ads on the screen of your cars while stuck in traffic?
Also from what I’ve seen online some of the gas pumps have switched from conventional speakers to DML panel speakers so you can’t destroy the speaker cones.
We need a commercial point of sale sabotage manual. Like we need to comb through the repair manuals for all these things, all these advertising machines, and determine how they can be disabled quickly, quietly, and with minimal evidence by the “end user”.
yeah, I genuinely thought about trying to figure out where the essential components of those were so I could pop a little hole in them with a drill but I decided to stop driving for like a year instead