Our Startrek future is the Ferengi Empire.
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WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 5 weeks agoPsych! You thought you were gonna get star trek style utopia, while we’ve been descending into fascist dystopia for several decades!?!
CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 5 weeks ago
Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
Turns we’ve been in the mirror universe all along.
brown567@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
Woo! Techno-feudalism!
CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 5 weeks ago
I’m still holding out hope for cyberpunk. At least it comes with skylines and cool back alley markets.
CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
And cybernetics that won’t play adds in your brain until you have a seizure!. Seriously settings like cyberpunk and shadowrun are starting to look good by the standards of what we’re heading for. (Shadowrun is also old enough that you could actually just barely survive on a part time job without sharing an appartment even in the dystopia)
CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 5 weeks ago
The difference is whether there’s any room outside the system to exist in, right? Can you jailbreak your implant? Can you live in a shitty illegal slum, or are they all carefully dispersed before they can begin?
It’s all about technologies of control. Ironically, the places seeing democratic backsliding are not the only or even the main ones developing and implementing them.