Cyberpunk

That movie was contemporary geopolitical commentary using a sci-fi metaphor. Same as District 9 (a refugee crisis). So you could argue that future is now, depending on your views.

I replied elsewhere but, yes, that's what they want. Peter Thiel is a proponent of the Network State and absolutely is working towards that end.

Elysium

We can't get to Elysium, because we defunded all our health care R&D

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That's closest to the expected Idiocracy in cyberpunk aesthetic.

Or 'THX 1138'

Oof. The Ministry of Information would like to interview you about your involvement in this "buttle" affair.

“We have dystopia at home”

Karen O is a treasure.

That was always one of my favorites, and it seemed so likely. Now, however, I realize that it was horribly overimpressed with corporations, like most 80s stuff was. We know innovation isn't something megacorps do anymore.

The one I wished for was more of a Shadow Run future, and my native friends and I used to joke about it.

Yes, absolutely. His most recent books, the peripheral and agency, have a very plausible outcome—ultra rich living supported by automation after 60-80% of the less fortunate perish over 30 Years in a series of rolling catastrophes they affectionately refer to as “the great jackpot”.

My company poached a bunch of people from a competitor. And I'm hoping to parlay my US job into a transfer to the EU to get citizenship. Meanwhile my company is building arguably the most complex system ever made by humans. No one employee knows enough about it to say how it works. All we know is that big corporations pay big money for it. And if a system is capable of becoming self aware, it will happen in one of our facilities as no one else has systems as big and fast as ours.

Yes, I work in AI.

Except we'll be running around like cave people with spears made of iron or copper pipe .... we might get imaginative and use bicycles or giant kites or wind surfing.

Horses might exist but they'll be too expensive to maintain and will only be available in certain regions where expertise can survive alongside the farming resources to maintain these animals

It might look like Mad Max for about 10 years maybe 20 but not beyond that.

Motorized vehicles won't be possible after 20/30 years because all fuel supplies will disappear, any stored fuel will break down and be unusable or contaminated and there will be no more manufacturing of new fuels. And if there are places producing new liquid fuels, they won't be able to supply anyone beyond 100 km of the manufacturing center. Wars will be fought for the fuel centers and chances are they will be destroyed in the fighting.

"This plague...the rioting is intensifying to the point where we may not be able to contain it."

"Why contain it? Let it spill over the schools and churches, let the bodies pile up in the streets. In the end they'll beg us to save them."

"You misunderstand. They're rioting because we're trying to save them with vaccines. They don't think they need to be saved."

"God, people are so fucking stupid. Why do I even want to take over the world?"