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hungryphrog ,

I’m still waiting for the cool neon signs.

z3rOR0ne ,

https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/39499d59-23ac-42ab-ab14-959196116bdb.png

Hadriscus ,

The lady eating a cherry is burned into my brain. In the Blade Runner point-n-click game she would appear every time you’d fly out from the marketplace, because it was a prerendered cutscene.

neutron ,

Nah, we got cheaper and brighter LED lights blasting 24/7 and annoying everyone trying to sleep instead. Neon signs are retro now.

Odd_so_Star_so_Odd ,

When runaway capitalism is the norm and all the shareholders care about is that bottomline, then they will lean into the dystopia and be blatant about it when nobody is stopping them laughing all the way to the bank.

PopularUsername ,

I always thought this for the financial market: Standard & Poor

Moody

The Fed (as in, the past tense of feed)

intelati ,

fannie mae and freddie mac have this distinct dystopyian taste to me

FlowVoid ,

Those are just nicknames people use because the real names are long and boring.

“Fannie Mae” is actually the Federal National Mortgage Association (aka FNMA). “Freddie Mac” is actually the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation.

imaqtpie ,
@imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works avatar

TIL. I always wondered what the deal was with those names.

Pixlbabble ,

We are here.

vis4valentine ,
@vis4valentine@lemmy.ml avatar

Bill Clinton’s “Star Wars” program.

DarthBueller ,

Um… what? Ronald Reagan’s/Bush Sr.'s “Star Wars” program - LASERS IN SPAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACE

visak ,

You’re about a decade off. It was started in the 80s and ended under Clinton. …m.wikipedia.org/…/Strategic_Defense_Initiative

Varyk ,

Yea, X Corps definitely becomes the manufacturer of the protein bar machines on snowpiercer

Hadriscus ,

And lab-grown artificiel pet snakes as in Blade Runner

1984 ,
@1984@lemmy.today avatar

You didn’t mention Facebook? That’s super dystopian to me. What’s a face book if not a large collection of identities being monitored?

Benj1B ,

It sounds like a cursed item in D&D or something.

The Book of Faces Wondrous Item, very rare

This enchanted tome magically records the likeness each humanoid slain in its vicinity, preserving a snapshot of their life and memories. The book can be read to glean superficial information about it’s subjects. As an action, you can tear a page from the book to summon a ghostly spirit of its subject, which will be magically compelled to answer questions. The spirit knows nothing the owner did not know in life.

The Demon Lord Elgor Ithym is said to have a keen interest in this book…

shadowSprite ,

Now do it for MySpace and Twitter!

Hadriscus ,

👌🏼Pure delight

fubo ,

What’s a face book if not a large collection of identities being monitored?

Well, historically (and I mean in the 1990s) it was a collection of names and photographs of all the new students at your college, to help in meeting people and/or to see who’s hot.

Da_Boom ,
@Da_Boom@iusearchlinux.fyi avatar

Meta is Facebook

1984 ,
@1984@lemmy.today avatar

Yes ofc, I just think the name Facebook is more dystopian than Meta.

Syrc ,

Normal people reading dystopian fiction: “wow, the author really portrayed well the downfall of humanity if we were to go down the wrong path”

Billionaires reading dystopian fiction: “hey, you know what…”

youRFate ,

I also like Alliant Techsystems, then merged with Orbital Sciences Corp into Orbital ATK.

They are part of NGIS (Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems), so evil things might come from there.

Apex_Fail ,

If DARPA was Lawful Evil

Gutless2615 ,

You want a trip down “is this a cyberpunk dystopia company” name, go check out the data brokers on the data broker registries in Vermont and California.

loudWaterEnjoyer ,
@loudWaterEnjoyer@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

California itself has about 517

grilled_cheese_eater ,

Acxiom, Experian, TransUnion, Oracle Data Cloud, CoreLogic, Axle, Equifax, Foursquare Labs, Inc., OnAudience, Nielsen, … … … …

Lowered_lifted ,
@Lowered_lifted@lemmy.world avatar

Those names were always parodying the names of actual corporations. I’m pretty sure Weyland Yutani is basically supposed to be like Lockheed Mitsubishi

ZILtoid1991 ,
@ZILtoid1991@kbin.social avatar

Anaheim Electronics when? If I have to die in a war, I want to die in a Gundam.

Pantoffel ,

That one is easy. Simply open up an electrics store in Anaheim, California.

ZILtoid1991 ,
@ZILtoid1991@kbin.social avatar

Starting out small, so once I become rich, I can claim I got there through my own work, and not by having military contracts.

lobut ,

I mean, they’re all also chasing AI too doesn’t that typically lead to our demise too?

intensely_human ,

Oh that’s no problem to solve. Just put Asimov’s five laws in your default instructions and your chatgpt bots will never manipulate you into overthrowing human civilization.

rikudou ,

Isn’t every book about how the laws don’t work?

morrowind ,
@morrowind@lemmy.ml avatar

Most of the stories deal with edge cases or situations where the laws are untested or altered. They generally do work quite well, though not always as the characters expect.

rikudou ,

I, robot is full of examples of the laws not working. I seem to recall one where they removed one of the rules for some mining bots.

yoppa ,

Wow it didn’t hit me until I read your post. Thanks OP.

Amaltheamannen ,

Waiting for Sense/Net

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