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Pons_Aelius ,

When Weyland corp announce a merger with Yutani industries it's time to worry.

DontTreadOnBigfoot ,
@DontTreadOnBigfoot@lemmy.world avatar

Or when Arisaka starts moving in on Militech turf.

clearedtoland ,

Ngl I wouldn’t mind being chromed

Zron ,

That’s the worst part, we’re rapidly approaching the corporate dystopia of cyberpunk, without any of the crazy drugs or body mods.

Give me gorilla arms, damnit

Xariphon ,

I just want to live forever as a semi-coherent cloud of nanites. Is that really too much to ask?

intensely_human ,

We’ve got the crazy drugs and body mods coming, don’t you worry. Haven’t you seen the videos of people who make designer prosthetics and robotic hands for themselves?

Soon somebody’s gonna put roller skates in their feet and then it’s all over. That’s how you’ll know it’s the singularity.

neutron ,

Realistically speaking, we really need to start differenciating between restoring human functions (like artificial eye for the blind) and enhancements augmenting abilities normal human limits (that same eye having x-ray and nightvision).

Restoring functions, at least, should be treated as universal medicine and healthcare and be available for whoever needs it.

intensely_human ,

That requires defining normal function which is mega dangerous. Especially as we move away from default humanity.

neutron ,

Hope you don’t mind being billed for the whole surgery, including amputation of limbs you never asked for in the first place. Shiny stuff with soul crushing debt - sounds like American colleges.

Phoonzang ,

I never asked for this. Wrong game, I know :)

neutron ,

Mankind Divided had a very abrupt cliffhanger. Adam needs a proper closure to his story.

morrowind , (edited )
@morrowind@lemmy.ml avatar

There’s a company called Hashicorp that’s been in the news recently. Literally perfect

nbailey ,
@nbailey@lemmy.ca avatar

Heh, people from 50 years ago hearing that my job is terraforming using Hashicorp equipment would be very disappointed.

intensely_human ,

Terraform it all. Pave the moon. Dairy Queens on Mars. Uber in the skies of Jupiter.

Badland9085 ,

Hashicorp’s been around for years; since 2012 actually. Used to be a pretty cool company, looked up by many, like a shining beacon in the darkness. It’s unfortunate where they’ve gone to now.

intensely_human ,

I wondered what Badland was talking about, but I nodded along like I knew. Maybe the next words out of his mouth would be an explanation of what he’s just said. It could happen.

rolaulten ,

I don’t know what part your unaware of - so let me do the ELI5. They (HashiCorp) created a tool called teraform which is used for defining what servers/other infrastructure you use in places like AWS. Up until recently this was open source under the Mozilla license to something that’s not quite open, but not fully closed source (yet).

Badland9085 ,

I intended to give an explanation, but since this community is pretty general, i.e. we have people from basically all walks of life here, many with little to no involvement or understanding of the tech industry, so I decided to leave it out cause it would be too much to explain.

[email protected] has given us a pretty brief explanation, but I think it can be further simplified, though would require a lot more knowledge build up (i.e. more words). If anyone’s interested, I can try to write a fireplace story, though I can’t say I’m the most qualified person to do so, or give an absolutely accurate story.

jtk ,
@jtk@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

I don’t get how the name is dystopian. Is it from a book or movie or something? Search only turns up the company you’re talking about.

intensely_human ,

Could be that it mixes what sounds like a Japanese name with an English word, which makes it seem like a company from Japan operating in an English speaking place.

In the 1980s people expected that Japan was going to take over more and more American business. Japan was a major player and so sci fi written then — including that which was cyberpunk dystopian — assumed there’d be companies like “Ford” but named after Japanese guys.

Also it’s not “Hashi Corporation” it’s “HashiCorp” which implies a sort of pop-cultureification, like the company has sort of compacted over the years, and gotten less Japanese (known) and more hybrid Japanese-American-Corporate-Marketing (unknown, megacorps have shady cultures, they’re new things).

If HashiCorp were to show up in a movie, it would be in a holographic ad someone flies past.

neutron ,

And we are kind of getting there, but we often see multinational megacorps with Chinese or Korean names/origin.

clearedtoland ,

I’m just waiting for Omni Consumer Products (OCP) to open in Detroit.

Actaeon ,

Or Allied Commercial-Media Enterprises

clearedtoland ,

Or E-Corp

Xariphon ,

Or Wayland-Yutani

intensely_human ,

DaVinci Crater

drbluefall ,

Union Aerospace Corporation

steakmeout ,

*Areospacy

ObviouslyNotBanana ,
@ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world avatar

Exxon Mobile

ObviouslyNotBanana ,
@ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world avatar

Omni is actually a Swedish news aggregator. They just need to expand and change a bit.

KIM_JONG_JUICEBOX ,
@KIM_JONG_JUICEBOX@lemmy.ml avatar

Corporate Consumer Products already makes everything in China… hmm

Infynis ,
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There’s a company near me called the Telamon Corporation, which is the name of the Dragon from the Wheel of Time. So it’s not just cyberpunk, there’s fantasy as well

odium ,

Crazy to think they named Norse gods after the protagonist of the wheel of time.

intensely_human ,

Almost teleological in its implications!

SpaceNoodle ,

There’s also Palantir, which does exactly what you think

redditcandoone ,

Which is annoying because it’s a fucking good name.

evatronic ,

“Telemon” has an even more interesting history. He was a figure in Greek mythology, and generally around people like Hercules, Odysseus, and Jason. He is the son of a king and a mountain nymph.

As you may well know (but others don’t) Robert Jordan, when building the world for his Wheel of Time series, pulled from all sorts of existing myths, legends, and memories. After all, it’s just another turning of the Wheel, right?

Scrof ,

My first ISP in the late 90s was Skynet Online.

bob_wiley ,
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    Earthwormjim91 , (edited )

    en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skynet_(satellite)

    The UK already owns it. I’m pretty sure Terminator takes the name from the UK military satellite network. And SpaceX has launched Skynet satellites for them before so there is probably some agreement.

    The NSA also already has a surveillance program named SKYNET, which uses machine learning. …m.wikipedia.org/…/SKYNET_(surveillance_program)

    That one I’m pretty sure was named after the Terminator program.

    macisr ,

    Fuck I hadn’t thought about it.

    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.

    intensely_human ,

    Art creates the future. Whatever we envision we steer ourselves toward, consciously or unconsciously. A vision has gravity, and pulls people toward it. The more a vision is etched into people’s minds, the more likely we will live it.

    I’m convinced Apple’s overall aesthetic is based on Star Trek: TNG. Or at least it was for a phase, until we got bored with it and took it even further.

    postmateDumbass ,

    Nah, calling the visions of aging tech bros on HRT art is a stretch too far.

    Zalack ,
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    They’re talking about the visions of sci-fi authors, filmmakers, and artists. The tech Bros are the ones being drawn towards those artists’ visions.

    SnipingNinja ,

    Reminds me of the “torment Nexus” meme

    MossyFeathers ,

    https://pawb.social/pictrs/image/05e5ae2f-f856-4858-b767-b277bad02356.jpeg

    postmateDumbass ,

    Look what has been done with 1984 and A Brave New World.

    postmateDumbass ,

    It aint the same vision.

    They smashed the Rose-colored glasees in favor of orher lenses, one tinted the color of money. The other a swirl of gluttony, power, and dopamine.

    RegularGoose ,

    Shitty art is still art.

    intensely_human ,

    It must suck to spend all day hating

    postmateDumbass ,

    Nah, it mostly sucks to have watched the tech bro crowd take something wonderful, that bemefited everyone and twist it into personal profit streams devoid of any soul and/or humanity.

    I know those types are going to destroy us all, but everyone sucks so just let the bad times roll. Then the heads will follow. Rolling on the floor.

    Jackolantern ,

    Currently waiting for BiffCo to spice up our lives and give us floating long boards

    IONLYpost ,
    @IONLYpost@kbin.social avatar

    Alphabet.

    theneverfox ,

    Soon to be alpha-bet

    Kolanaki ,
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    My favorite is literally just “Brand.” The “generic” brand company. Although I feel like they leaned purposefully into the cyberpunk shit.

    SnipingNinja ,

    Can’t even find anything about them

    Kolanaki ,
    @Kolanaki@yiffit.net avatar

    That’s how generic it is!

    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.

    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.

    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

    MxM111 ,

    Skynet.net

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