I have an artificial lens in one eye (like a contact lens that’s been glued in place) that has built in uv protection. Not cybernetic as such, but I’d say it was adjacent.
Might as well go cyberpunk, I guess.
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ZagamTheVile@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
RadicalEagle@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Yeah that sounds cool af
ZagamTheVile@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Lol, And all it cost me the ability to focus on anything not exexactly 37 inches away.
Cenotaph@mander.xyz 2 weeks ago
Fun fact, many of the intra-ocular lenses and contact lenses that provide UV protection do so just by the properties of the material they are made of, not any special coating.
acockworkorange@mander.xyz 2 weeks ago
A friend of mine changed his internal lenses to synthetic ones due to cataracts. He was used to the dim light of cataracts and it took him a while to get used to a brighter world.
ZagamTheVile@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Dude had built in shades and didn’t know it.
eupraxia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
I like the word “burgerpunk” to describe our dystopia not as neon lights and cool sexy cyborgs but more the aesthetic of a DoorDash ad.
The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I hate it, but it’s perfect.
Retrograde@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Amazing. What’s more burgerpunk than making AI images about burgerpunk game concept art?
Coming to buggy early access 2025 on epic games launcher
umbraroze@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Fuck, 2020 would have been so much more bearable if our food had been delivered by The Deliverator. You know, a highly qualified professional.
…Instead, in this region at least, the app economy bros employed a bunch of befuddled immigrants and also screwed them over contract-wise. So it’s the sad kind of cyberpunk, not the funny kind of cyberpunk
MicrowavedTea@infosec.pub 2 weeks ago
Meanwhile IRL cool cybernetic implants: I’m sorry our company has been bought by Amazon and support for your eyes has been dropped. Please refer to a local surgeon to remove them at your expense.
CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
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simple@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
We’re approaching a cool cyberpunk future but can’t even get wet streets with reflective purple neon signs 😔
sir_pronoun@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Talk to c/hydrohomies if you have trouble with streets not being wet enough
tourist@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
don’t waste good water
wetten the streets with kerosene
Anticorp@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Seattle has the wet streets covered. Someone just needs to install some signs.
ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
Lots of places in East Asia with those vibes
rImITywR@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
We are not even going to get dense cities like Night City. Imagine how much worse the cyberpunk dystopia is going to be with a 2.5 hour commute each from the suburbs along a mega highway.
grue@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Look, us YIMBYs are trying our best, okay?
Anticorp@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Do NYC, Seattle, SF, London, Tokyo, and all of the other dense cities not exist anymore?
rImITywR@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
None of those are even close to the density of Night City. Tokyo has a density of 6,363 persons/km^2, compared to Night City’s density of 65,000 people/km^2.
Also those are ‘old’ cities. They have historical reasons for increasing density. Night City is a city founded and built by mega corps, represents the ‘new’ world that the mega corps want to build. My point is that in our world, the type of cities that are being built and our mega corps want, are all suburban spawl.
spicystraw@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Reality check: Life’s more “flickering office bulb” than “cyberpunk neon dream.” Guess we’re stuck in Blade Runner: Budget Cut Edition.
Retrograde@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
That real “we have cyberpunk at home” aesthetic
Exusia@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
This is fair, if we had neon shit and cybernetics it would make the world a little cooler I guess.
NegativeInf@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Nah, they’d make it like repo.
lowered_lifted@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
there are plenty of cybernetic implants that do not work anymore because the company that makes them refuses to update them so that part is totally already a thing
Damage@feddit.it 2 weeks ago
there’s zero punk in our current society
GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
I honestly believe the closest thing to real world cyberpunk is the anti corporate / foss / selfhosted digital sovereignty “ideology” that lemmy coincidentally is a part of. For the rest, like cyberdecks and body augmentation we just have to wait a bit.
Barbarian@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
If you got a powerful tablet and installed Kali on it, isn’t that effectively a cyberdeck?
beliquititious@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
Sweetie, we’re all being punks right now using pirate reddit. What’s more punk than undermining oligarch control of social platforms?
Damage@feddit.it 2 weeks ago
Frying their brains with our cyberdecks?
sukhmel@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
Well, there’s “low life” part for sure
andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Fuck neon, LEDs, all that bright shit spoiling the night. Razor-sharp splashes of light pollution is not an aesthetic, they are an eyestrain and an ad space. My homies enjoy old districts and wilderness where they can relax and see the stars for once.
pancakes@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
That doesn’t sound very dystopian
JoMiran@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
Depending on where you live, you can also have the cool neon aesthetic.
SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
We do have Elon Musk brain implants now. Any takers? Didn’t think so. You do not want to go cyberpunk
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
We also have killer robot dogs and illicit cloning labs irl now.
Monstrosity@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
My grandpa’s pacemaker has beef with being left out of the, “cool cybernetic implants,” category.
thefartographer@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
We already have cool cybernetic implants. We also have even cooler corporate greed massive lack of right-to-repair laws so that you can get stuck with a deactivated implant!
samus12345@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
All of the bad stuff, none of the cool stuff.
Blackmist@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
In real life we had cybernetic implants shut down by corporations because they weren’t profitable enough.
I don’t think there’s anything more cyberpunk than that.
We could definitely use more neon though. Might have to look into WLED and light strips again.
Flocklesscrow@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
Or worse, your implants start getting repo’d by said corpos. And there’s no Jude Law.
Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
2010 repomen movie…
hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
If you’re going to make me live in a dystopia, then there better be a cool aesthetic at least.
ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Also you don’t have cyberdecks with 40mm microCD drives but smartphones without expendable storage.
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
definitely seems like weve been ripped off
CazzoneArrapante@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
70s, 80s and 90s were absolute peak Western world and we should go back there and live there forever.
inb4 life was worse because “insert irrelevant shit no one cares about here”
ardrak@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
In Matrix the robots said that 1999 was the peak of human civilization, maybe they were into something.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
Define “Western world”.
CazzoneArrapante@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
EU (including UK) + US + AUS + NZ.
bi_tux@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
those cool cybernetic implants aren’t that cool imo
Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
You forgot firearm vending machines and rampant gang violence.
CyberMonkey404@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
Left is advertising, right is actual result
A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I want to be a cyborg but after seeing how tech, especially software, has developed (like, I don’t even really want to buy a new car because how tf am I gonna fix it), I don’t think I can trust it. Imagine if your ears’ firmware just stops being supported.
Any cybernetics would have to be built for me by a hobbyist with a workshop full of Raspberry Pis or something
nul9o9@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Open source fitmware or nothing.
Damage@feddit.it 2 weeks ago
and strictly offline
acockworkorange@mander.xyz 2 weeks ago
Fitmware = Wetware?
IllNess@infosec.pub 2 weeks ago
I want an open source electric car.
I would download a car.
Anticorp@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
You didn’t pay your subscription for your enhanced eyes, so you woke up blind this morning.
gex@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Nah, you get downgraded to the essentials plan: 20/40 eyesight, dry eyeballs, ads on your peripheral vision and random eye twitching throughout the day
TranscendentalEmpire@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
Yeah, plus the “cutting edge” prosthetic tech we currently have is mostly overhyped marketing.
There are about a dozen powered prosthetics I always see on social media that always look really cool and the “patients” always go on and on about how useful it is…What people don’t realize is those “patients” are being paid by the manufacturer, and usually part of the deal is that they get the limb for free.
They don’t tell you about having to wear a heavy battery pack that only lasts for a couple hours. They don’t tell you that you have to pre-program routines like tying your shoe laces. That you have to purposely concentrate on flexing residual muscle groups in your limb to activate those routines. Nor do they tell you that the majority of patients who own those devices usually revert back to a manual prosthetic for functional tasks, or just choose not to wear a prosthetic at all because they can achieve more function with their stumps.
While prosthetics have started looking more futuristic and functional, unfortunately we haven’t really advanced any technology that actually improves function and utility since the late 90’s. And I highly doubt we’ll ever make a prosthetic that provides more utility than the limb it’s replacing, not in our lifetime at least.
A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Plus, a lot of them just end up being no longer supported at all. Oopsie your Planned Obsolescent Leg needs replacing again
EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
I remember many years ago there was some study being done into deer antler as a way to integrate implants with zero chance of rejection (something about deer antler being bone that penetrates through the skin without causing any problems), and something about using squid cartilage for implanting circuitry for similar reasons, but the coolest advancement that I’ve seen for prosthetics has been 3d printing.
I saw an open source project for 3d printing prosthetic limbs with a focus on making affordable prosthetics for kids since they grow so quickly they need new fittings quickly as well. And beyond that, I haven’t heard of pretty much anything new in easily decades. The fact that much of our prosthetics technology isn’t that different from what they had in the Civil War is sad.
Spacehooks@reddthat.com 2 weeks ago
Jockey literally lost his exoskeleton due to end of life.
Alwaysnownevernotme@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
People with bionic eye implants are going blind again after the gadget expired inside their bodies. More than 350 people have a discontinued retinal implant in their eyeballs. The invention was once a cutting-edge option for restoring sight, but it has been replaced by newer technologies.
hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
Yeah, if everyone started turning into a cyborg, walking becomimg a subscription-based service would be just a question of time.
grue@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
And by “or something,” you probably mean 3d printers.
sukhmel@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
In a loose sense, any implant makes you a cyborg, in a more strict sense implants that control something in your body do. Heart rate control by a pacer, insulin level control by an implant, hearing aid, some more complicated implants all make you a cyborg but usually not the cyborg one imagines
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
and a few ardiunos