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Cyberpunk

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What is Cyberpunk?

Cyberpunk is a science-fiction sub-genre dealing with the integration of society and technology in dystopian settings. Often referred to as “low-life and high tech,” Cyberpunk stories deal with outsiders (punks) who fight against the oppressors in society (usually mega corporations that control everything) via technological means (cyber). If the punks aren’t actively fighting against a megacorp, they’re still dealing with living in a world completely dependent on high technology.

Cyberpunk characteristics include:

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[–] Rawdogg@lemm.ee 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

And this dude is tweeting on the torment nexus despite its nazi owner making money when people use it

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[–] ClassIsOver@hexbear.net 2 points 5 days ago

Trauma Team just seems like the logical extension of what we have now.

[–] Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world 0 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I think I've come to realize it's actually the other way around. People create some cool things. Good Sci-fi uses that technology to reveal things about our culture and society. Bad Sci-fi just makes it the most evil villainous thing out for reasons. There is a lot of bad Sci-fi. We all grow up reading and watching it. The people who create stories for other shows we watch, all grew up reading and absorbing it. It then becomes our zeitgeist that any new tech will ultimately be our doom. Its a tyrannical chicken dystopian egg problem.

ultimately the technology that we all should have been concerned about was books.

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