2/ The cyberpunk future was never possible, because it depended on some misunderstandings about how tech was going to progress. Cyberpunk thought it was about lots of computers and data everywhere, but really it was about SHORTAGE of storage and bandwidth. Moores Law killed it
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3/ If you can come up with some reason that bytes and bandwidth might have grown much slower from 1985 to today, but drugs, genetic engineering, and other tech grew much faster, then you get cyberpunk I can't quite come up w such a scenario.
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4/ The world we live in has infinite data and infinite bandwidth. This means that data and bandwidth are fundamentally uninteresting. Shortages are interesting. Constricted supplies breed competition. Think about Johnny Mnemonic smuggling data.https://twitter.com/raptros_/status/1359909956187811850 …
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5/ The Road Warrior is about a world where gasoline is in short supply, thus the world revolves around that. Neuromancer is about a world where data / AI is restricted, thus the world revolves around that. The Moon is a Harsh Mistress is where freedom is restricted, thus ...
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6/ All fiction (and all fictional worlds) posit a shortage, and thus a need / a want, that drives the characters, forms the McGuffin, etc. The Big Lebowksi is a world with a modest shortage of rugs, money, and trophy wives.
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7/ The world we live in has infinite bandwidth, but a shortage of tolerance for cultural dissent. Cyberpunk has a tolerance for cultural dissent, but a shortage of bandwidth.
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8/ Iron Dragon has a surplus of Vikings, and a shortage of spaceships.https://twitter.com/robkroese/status/1359911060791246850 …
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I like that
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Interesting. What do you think could have happened differently to create that future?
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Even back then, the future wasn't what it used to be.
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