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A post by cureltyserpent containing an excerpt from a book. The excerpt reads “Magnetic Dog Sisters were on the door that night, and I didn’t relish trying to get out past them if things didn’t work out. They were two meters tall and thin as greyhounds. One was black and the other white, but aside from that they were as nearly identical as cosmetic surgery could make them. They’d been lovers for years and were bad news in a tussle. I was never quite sure which one had originally been male.”. The poster comments “Can’t beleive [sic] the first characters described in classic cyberpunk fiction are lesbian (one trans) puppygirls with a sister kink”.
Self-fulfilling perhaps. It would seem that while most of us read them as cautionary, some of us read them as a blueprint, and that is what we are now living through.
Gotta build that Torment Nexus to please shareholders.
Snowcrash was a dystopic warning not a plan.
Rich assholes think it was a dreamworld.
Guys like Musk and Zuck walked away from reading it thinking that it would be pretty cool to be L Bob Rife.
Neuralink is nothing if not a high tech Nam-shub delivery system.
Walking around wearing Google Glass and other AR devices would be like having advertising added to real life. Neuralink would be a hellish version of that black mirror exercise bike episode where you can’t see anything but ads, not even when you close your eyes.
FTFY
Unfortunately right now it is just a bunch of dead chimps and fortunately lots of Elon Dickriders lined up to test fry their brains.
Having read other books by Neal Stephenson I gotta say I’m not too sure about that one, he definitely has a right-libertarian ideological bent, even if he’s capable of lightly poking fun at the absurdities of a hypothetical ancap society.