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Dude, think about it for a moment. Even if they come up with all that cool stuff, are you sure you wanna plug that shit into your body?
It's hilarious how I grew up loving cyberpunk like Ghost in the Shell. Thought I'd want to be a cool cyborg. Nope, I'm like Togusa, the dude with no cybernetics and refusing to get any.
B-but holograms though.
Nah I get it, I wouldn't plug corpo augs and decks into myself either. But you'll recall that in the stories, the punks also just made their own, 3d printed or cracked and rooted, running self-made FOSS they downloaded from the Net. We're kinda living that future with Linux, F-droid, 3d printers and all the rest, but still, none of the aesthetics. No holograms or hoverbikes makes me sad.
That's just a different flavour of yolo. All fun and games until you break the firmware for your bowel functions.
"A small price to pay for ~~salvation~~ cyborg augs" - the cyborg in the middle of disassembling their abdomen, maybe
I still want my off the shelf holograms, EMP grenades and pulse rifles and hoverbike tho.
I love the aesthetics and all too, but I wouldn‘t do it. Imagine the ads and shit they would download into you, then you probably need a subscription for every little thing and all of it’s going to be focused at making people better work tools. I‘m good. Though I fear when everyone else has it, others might need to have it too to keep up in the labour market or be seen as Luddites, like how everyone has a smartphone now. I can only hope I‘m dead by then.