Flying cars are the dumbest fucking idea. Look, the reason we don't have flying cars isn't because the technology of flight has so far eluded our simple minds but because it's a fundamentally idiotic idea.
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MetalbourneInside a cluster b personalityRegistered Userregular
Flying cars are the dumbest fucking idea. Look, the reason we don't have flying cars isn't because the technology of flight has so far eluded our simple minds but because it's a fundamentally idiotic idea.
What? No I just don't want a simple fender bender to end up crashing through my roof.
We're in the post-cyberpunk future. Post-cyberpunk being the nebulous literary genre that basically happened when the guys who actually started cyberpunk moved on. Neal Stephenson's The Diamond Age and Cryptonomicon get in to this in two different ways: Diamond Age has the future moving on from Snow Crash *punk, and Cryptonomicon (Reamde as well) has guys who act the punk role within the new future relative to the 80s.
I wrote this little piece on the genre aspect a while back, called "A Difficult Truth of Genre Nomenclature", specifically dealing with the fact that a lot of people consider any gritty futuristic art cyberpunk. But it also gets into a few deeper thoughts.
Sorry to break it to some of you, but not everything grittily futuristic is cyberpunk. And not everything that looks to be between 1850 and 1910 is steampunk - if “steampunk” was ever truly a genre to begin with and not just an overblown retro-nerd-pop-art movement stemming from Gibson and Sterling’s The Difference Engine. And don’t ever forget that the “punk” part needs to be in there to count, and far more than just aesthetically - a cyberpunk and steampunk alike must be gritty, intelligent, and strive against the system.
But within the literary world, and thus the *punk genres themselves, it’s far more complicated than that. The truth is, categorizing things strictly as cyberpunk is both inaccurate and limiting; most post-Snow Crash *punk-y stuff (and even a good bit of pre-Snow Crash stuff - see the original Ghost in the Shell manga for a shining example) created by forward-thinking authors is actually outside of the original cyberpunk bubble, and for a reason - that original ideal concept of the characters like the hacker kid and the razorgirl fighting in a corporate future, once revolutionary, has become overly codified. The once edgy imagery of that future has become pop media standard. And the futures involved become less commentary, warning, or meditation, and more box office tickets and video game sales. Commentary is still viable in this frame, when written well, but it’s become all too identifiable in the three decades since the first “Cyberpunk” short story emerged. In the minds of some, if not most, thinkers crucial to building the original cyberpunk genre, that ideal of the imperfect future even came true in some form. These same authors have moved on with their works, still considering the present and its implications for the future, but from new vantage points.
Consider the opening of Neal Stephenson’s The Diamond Age, in which a classic cyberpunk-esque character, gritty and ruthless,is destroyed by the justice system of his society; the novel is implied to be in the same universe as Stephenson’s prior Snow Crash, but the world has moved on to better, smarter things. In the same sense, while cyberpunk is still a valid genre, tying oneself to the tropes therein really limits oneself to a past’s view of the future. What a narrow mindset to address the world from.
Both Neuromancer and Snow Crash are on their way to become movies. Neuromancer has been in limbo for a long time, but it seems to be moving along again.
I am looking forward to Snow Crash way more.
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I don't want flying cars. Hovercars, on the other hand...
I don't want flying cars. Hovercars, on the other hand...
The problem is that propping a car up on wheels is a much more elegant and energy efficient solution to the problem of keeping the bottom side of a car off the ground.
"At least six people were hurt and 20 arrests were made as rioters vandalised and looted shops, setting a car on fire and damaging street signs and lamp-posts, according to Reuters news agency.
Some revellers accused the police of over-reacting."
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Pretty much everything about that picture is great.
Pretty much the only serious objection developers are having trouble getting around is "People drive like butts."
Yeah, people still can't handle 2 dimensions for traveling.
Don't throw them a Z axis before they have a handle on X and Y.
What? No I just don't want a simple fender bender to end up crashing through my roof.
We're in the post-cyberpunk future. Post-cyberpunk being the nebulous literary genre that basically happened when the guys who actually started cyberpunk moved on. Neal Stephenson's The Diamond Age and Cryptonomicon get in to this in two different ways: Diamond Age has the future moving on from Snow Crash *punk, and Cryptonomicon (Reamde as well) has guys who act the punk role within the new future relative to the 80s.
*punk authors have realized the "we live in the post-cyberpunk future" thing for years now.
Valuable reading: http://motherboard.vice.com/2012/6/6/it-evolved-into-birds-ten-science-fictional-thinkers-on-the-past-and-future-of-cyberpunk
And dream about cybernetic arms with retractable spurs
Cyber-Racism
hoverpack
don't even care
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skateboards are radical as fuck
I am looking forward to Snow Crash way more.
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Short answer: Kinda!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7FZr98MleU
Not quite Cyberpunk but the mohawked and goggled rebels need something to fight-against.
I really want to pop-in Ghost in the Shell again.
The problem is that propping a car up on wheels is a much more elegant and energy efficient solution to the problem of keeping the bottom side of a car off the ground.
ok that's a lie I might love chocolate more
My boards are the most radical. The most.
the entire video this is from is awesome
clark hassler rules
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPLxQDo4PYk
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It's that there are multiple and evolving distinct forms of skateboarding of all goddamn things
Know what'll get a polar bear laid? When the ladies see Him ridin around on his sweet hoverboard. Bam! Two birds!
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What has science done?!
Hoverbears! He just told you!
seriously this shit ain't complicated
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Some revellers accused the police of over-reacting."
http://www.npr.org/2011/06/13/137029208/heart-with-no-beat-offers-hope-of-new-lease-on-life
You have no pulse.
Probably in the next generation or so, we're likely to start hitting some early transhuman ethical concerns.