Corporate CONTROL
Technological control
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advances in technology are used to control or instill fear
Whereas the short-term impact of AI depends on who controls it,
the long-term impact depends on whether it can be controlled at all.
Cyberpunk is a sci-fi subgenre featuring advanced science and technology in an urban, dystopian future.
On one side you have powerful mega-corporations and private security forces, and on the other you have the dark underworld of illegal trade, gangs, drugs, and vice.
In between all of this is politics, corruption, and social upheaval.
WHERE AESTHETIC EXCELLENCE MEETS NARRATIVE MEDIOCRITY
At the end of the world there will only be liquid advertisement and gaseous desire.
The future has looked the same for almost four decades.
Sublimated from our bodies, our untethered senses will endlessly ride escalators through pristine artificial environments, more and less than human, drugged-up and drugged down, catalysed, consuming and consumed by a relentlessly rich economy of sensory information, valued by the pixel. Cyberpunk movies and anime often provide a pertinent critique on the social and political institutions through its architecture.
Post-Cyberpunk is a modern reaction to the now antiquated visual qualities of ’80s inspired cyberpunk. Post-Cyberpunk tends to have a greater focus on Transhumanism, space travel, and emerging technologies that weren’t imagined at the time of the ’80s.
Cyber refers to technology, and is most often associated with cyberspace (this word was originally coined by William Gibson himself), and cybernetic enhancements to the body.
Punk, on the other hand, refers to the people and the attitude that cyberpunk has. The protagonists tend to be outsiders, anti-heroes, outcasts, criminals, visionaries, dissenters, and misfits.
Advert-Overloaded Future
We now live in hyperreality, a world where simulations of reality seem more real than reality itself. a cyberpunk-style corporate dystopia
The term hyperreality was coined by French theorist Jean Baudrillard to describe the postmodern, semiotic condition of society. In short, it is the condition in which we are unable to distinguish between reality, and our simulation of reality.
The Fifth Element is a prediction of the global capitalist nightmare we find ourselves in.
More discourse has surfaced in the past years discussing the epic fashions of The Fifth Element than have discussed its depiction of the climate crisis. Besson’s dystopic masterpiece has, in a way, become victim to its own success.
We're drowning in our own waste
trashmageddon WALL·E and Idiocracy are, in fact, the same damn movie
the weather is always lousy -
whenever it's not pouring rain, the sky is overcast with dark, pollution-laden clouds that barely let any sunlight through
High tech.
Low life.
The future is already here — it’s just not very evenly distributed.
Favorite fictional future/dystopia drug in movies?
ultra-violence Twelve serious crimes reported every minute. Seventeen thousand per day. We can respond to around six percent.
You'd have to change
the human genome to stop wealth discrepancy
ROBOTS, FEMINISM AND DOMESTIC DYSTOPIA
lesbian sex robots
Sex With Robots - Everyone’s Doin’ It gynoids made in the form of young women and used as sex dolls
Cyborg Mechanic
‘Cyberpunk 2077’ Bans Mod That Let Players Have Sex With Keanu Reeves‘ Artificial limbs will often grant superhuman strength, frequently overlooking the fact that even if your arm has the strength to lift a tanker truck, doing so would very probably crush your spine unless it were similarly reinforced.
Is a person still a cyborg if the only human component is a human brain?
Neurobiology, cybernetics and computer technology have advanced to such a point that most people possess "neuro-cyberbrains"—a technological "organic-synthetic" wetware computeruser interface implant located in the suboccipital nerve region of the cranium; this allows their minds to seamlessly interact with mobile devices, machines or networks around them. The neuro-cyberbrain revolutionized education and has made training in any task simply a matter of uploading the proper data. Wetwear - wet software - a mixture of software, hardware, and biology
5 Movies That Show Us Robots And Cops Don’t Mix
It won’t be long before the stuff of science fiction becomes a reality. Should robots be able to make autonomous decisions about killing human beings?
How Accurate Were *Minority Report'*s Technology Precogs?
Dystopian films don’t just warn us about dangerous technology.
They also inspire its development.
And while the internet presents the appearance of democratized participation, it's important to remember that its ultimate Oz-like control is centralized in the deep corridors of Big Tech companies.
Artificial intelligence
is a machine’s ability to perform the cognitive functions we usually associate with human minds.
Bromley Marks in “ Daybreakers” (2009)
The corporations run the show, and the corporations are not a democracy.
When Innovation Breeds Oppression In the realm of science fiction and theoretical futurism, there exists a captivating yet unsettling vision of technologically advanced societies.
These visions, often manifested as dystopias, serve as stark reminders of the potential perils that accompany unchecked technological advancement.
Unit 731
Easy access to surveillance technology allows digital authoritarianism to spread
Never Let Me Go -
Clones created solely for the purpose of donating their organs to others
Exploring Cloning Tropes In Science Fiction
Android/Gynoid - a robot that looks and acts like a human being
Robot - a machine capable of carrying out physical tasks
Cyborg - a human being whose physiological functions are aided or enhanced by artificial means such as biochemical or electronic modifications to the body. ROBOT / ANDROID / CYBORG ??
Robots are a symbol of increased surveillance Robocop had facial recognition technology, access to public databases, and enhanced reflexes, boosting its speed and strength.
In fact, they’re so lifelike they can even serve as replacements for people’s deceased loved ones and fulfill wives’ sexual responsibilities. basic pleasure model
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as AIs become more realistic and able to feel emotions, they may eventually learn how to suffer, which could have huge implications for how we treat these mechanical beings and vice versa.
Moreover, if they could finally express their suffering, will they resist their owners’ orders, demand their rights, or even rebel against the “abuses” they’re experiencing?
There’s no need to worry about a robot uprising. We can always just pull the plug, right…? RIGHT? ... the robots started to develop a soul, if you will -- explainable behaviors that would one day lead to secrets, dreams and, ultimately, revolution.
Necromancer
the rise of the machines
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