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    1. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 11 Feb 2021

      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted 『S T R A N G E L I F T』

      Some truth here, but disagree. in 2021, cyberpunk is an alternate history, with a branch point in 1985 or so. Like the "Gernsback Continiuum", it's not a vision of our future, or even of our present, but of our past's future.https://twitter.com/strnglft/status/1359905418886144006 …

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      『S T R A N G E L I F T』 @strnglft
      Tl;Dr: in the 90s cyberpunk was a vision of what the future could look like, in 2020 cyberpunk is a more explicit and glamorous repackaging of what we already endure.
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    2. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 11 Feb 2021

      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. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 11 Feb 2021

      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. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 11 Feb 2021

      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted aidan l. coyne ✝️ 🇻🇦 🏡 🔕 ☀️

      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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      aidan l. coyne ✝️ 🇻🇦 🏡 🔕 ☀️ @raptros_
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      now that's fascinating. i have a sort of intuitive idea of why that is, but if you have a detailed explanation i would love to see it.
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    5. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 11 Feb 2021

      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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      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 11 Feb 2021

      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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        2. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 11 Feb 2021

          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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        3. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 11 Feb 2021

          ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Robert Kroese

          8/ Iron Dragon has a surplus of Vikings, and a shortage of spaceships.https://twitter.com/robkroese/status/1359911060791246850 …

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          Robert Kroese @robkroese
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          Except for Dune
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        2. Robert Kroese‏ @robkroese 11 Feb 2021
          Replying to @MorlockP

          Except for Dune

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        3. -.-- -.-- --..‏ @postpostpostr 11 Feb 2021
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          shortages don't have to be material

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        1. Marc “Except You, You're All Right” Whipple‏ @WhippleMarc 11 Feb 2021
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          I think it was Kurt Vonnegut who said that for a story to be interesting, the character has to want something, and the story then explains how they try to get it and deal with what is preventing them from getting it. If it's easy to get, then the story will not be interesting.

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