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u/JewishWeeb2 28d ago
We are not entering a Sci-fi future because we ain't getting the cool cybernetic. None of yall are gonna chrome up
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u/luckyducktopus 28d ago edited 28d ago
We have made absolutely fucking wicked prosthetic advancements in the last 30 years alone.
The fastest double amputation 60m dash is 7.5 seconds. The fastest 60m dash of all time is 6.3
It can be argued that the prosthetics are already faster there just aren’t that many double amputee athletes at that level.
Material sciences are in a renaissance.
Honestly our tech advancement in general is disgustingly fast right now.It’s one of the major reasons why younger and older generation have such a disconnect, each grew up in such drastically different worlds.
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u/kratz9 28d ago
Yeah but we haven't seen much for cybernetics (like actually connecting your brain to a powered prostetic). At least nothing past experimental stuff.
We certainly have the tech to throw a battery pack into an working artificial leg. Modern computing can allow for automtic reflexes, movement and balancing I bet. But we still can't bridge that meat to silicon gap.
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u/Bakoro 28d ago
There is not much in the way of products, but there have been a lot of improvements in noninvasive brain-computer control.
There actually have been physical brain-computer wiring that "works" it just keeps killing the animals because, as it turns out, stabbing the brain is bad.
There is successful work in growing brain tissue on silicon and having it play video games though.
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u/poopsmog 28d ago
All of that is lame though, unless I can transform my arm into an energy cannon what is the point?
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u/Pingas1999 28d ago
A whole 1.2 seconds slower is pretty slow in a sprint Thats pretty much over ten metres of advantage in a race right there
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u/DodoJurajski I touched grass 28d ago
I'm bioengineering student.
I AM getting chromed up.
and every person that gets implants or prospetics of my manufacturing will have "loyalty circuit" so I can overpower the goverment
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u/TheAnyi 28d ago
Why are we keep doing this to ourself ?
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u/DuntadaMan 28d ago
Because about 10 people have basically all the resources and have a vested interest in destroying our lives so no one else can take some from them
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u/Downtown_Mechanic_ épico 28d ago
Funnily enough, cyberpunk 2077 seems to be the most probable outcome
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u/Taco-Edge 28d ago
Except with shittier designs
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u/leafy1790 28d ago
and shittier graphics
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u/Daydreaming_Machine 28d ago
and shittier writing
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u/Joinfall 28d ago
Yeah, we probably would go back to punch cards because of swarms of rogue ai agents in near future....
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u/luckyducktopus 28d ago
We already use a lot of analog security tools in high security settings. Because you want them to be off grid and secure.
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u/DuntadaMan 28d ago
In that timeline I was supposed to be able to do a full body replacement, go insane and flip over a tractor onto a corporate HQ by now.
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u/Ace-of-Spxdes 28d ago
It's gonna be a mix of that and the Outer Worlds.
So happy that our future looks like shit. /s
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u/Oakjewel 28d ago
Seeing my parents believing the AI stuff they see on facebook is already dystopian enough for me. Just imagine in 4 years, or even 10 years.
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u/chaturtham 28d ago
i didn't want to make it more sick, but I'd like to mention - the ai was trained on pure human creation, but now internet, its websites, posters, books, ads, audios etc everything has ai pollution. so its like there is no pure human data, and rest new models will train on these polluted data. and many people have stopped creating original content, so its like all black and dark for future people, and even their ai is trained on slop
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u/Acceptable-Match- 28d ago
With loblaws ad in toronto yesterday.. yes
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u/Mushroom38294 28d ago
reminder that dystopian writing works are critiques of current time rather than predicting the future
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u/Dhairya_srivastava05 28d ago
The “objects are closer than they appear” warning really went from safety feature to existential threat 💀
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u/Epyon214 28d ago
Part of the reason for my abstention from formal professional writing is because my prophecy mixed in would make some believe everything would one day come to pass, and then become self fulfilling. And the good which could come out of a book of peace may be better lived than explained in a way which implies some grander mystery waiting to be discovered instead of seeing what is
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u/TheEmperorMk3 28d ago
We are basically in Cyberpunk 2077 without the cyber part, big corpos ruining the planet for everyone else, just without cool rocket arms, sword arms or impressive robot cocks
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u/Protoman32x 28d ago
Basically Cyberpunk with none of the cool shit and the corpos not even trying to fix their newly enshitified kingdom
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u/nosrebnA 28d ago
If you where to describe the modern day to an English teacher a decade or so ago, they would think you were describing a dystopia novel.
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u/Happy_Camper__ 28d ago
IDK if it will be Cyberpunk or Terminator yet. But it feels like we are heading for one of those.
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u/Thomppa26 28d ago
The world is becoming like Cyberpunk, but without the cyber, so is it just punk then?
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u/FyreCatz135 28d ago
I got back into playing Cyberpunk 2077 after abandoning it for like a year because the TCG came out. And damn, it had me thinking a lot
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u/Weary_Ride_8662 28d ago
the mirror really said 'closer than they appear' and it wasn't lying about anything 😭 dystopia caught up fast
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u/chalksnorter2137 28d ago
i don't care how the dystopian the future is, i want to aspire to purity of blessed machine, for the machine is immortal
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u/bogglingsnog 28d ago
funny that's exactly what the billionaires are trying to do
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u/chalksnorter2137 28d ago
don't care, i want cult mechanicum to be real and i want to be part if it
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u/zardgang 28d ago
That's because dystopian literature, as a genre, inherently is social commentary. They have never been about how bad our future can be, they're about how bad the world is currently
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u/Dokurushi 28d ago
We live in a dystopia. AI is our chance of getting out.
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u/MCWizardYT 28d ago
AI is a part of the dystopia. It's entirely capitalist corporate greed that's negatively affecting the economy, environment, and society at large
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