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We do have Elon Musk brain implants now. Any takers? Didn’t think so. You do not want to go cyberpunk
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
If you’re going to make me live in a dystopia, then there better be a cool aesthetic at least.
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”
Reality check: Life’s more “flickering office bulb” than “cyberpunk neon dream.” Guess we’re stuck in Blade Runner: Budget Cut Edition.
That real “we have cyberpunk at home” aesthetic
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.
That doesn’t sound very dystopian
definitely seems like weve been ripped off
My grandpa’s pacemaker has beef with being left out of the, “cool cybernetic implants,” category.
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.
Amazing. What’s more burgerpunk than making AI images about burgerpunk game concept art?
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I hate it, but it’s perfect.
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
We already have cool cybernetic implants. We also have even cooler corporate greed and a massive lack of right-to-repair laws so that you can get stuck with a deactivated implant!
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
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
Yeah, if everyone started turning into a cyborg, walking becomimg a subscription-based service would be just a question of time.
Any cybernetics would have to be built for me by a hobbyist with a workshop full of Raspberry Pis or something
And by “or something,” you probably mean 3d printers.
and a few ardiunos
Open source fitmware or nothing.
and strictly offline
You didn’t pay your subscription for your enhanced eyes, so you woke up blind this morning.
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
Jockey literally lost his exoskeleton due to end of life.
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.
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.
Plus, a lot of them just end up being no longer supported at all. Oopsie your Planned Obsolescent Leg needs replacing again
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.
We also have killer robot dogs and illicit cloning labs irl now.
All of the bad stuff, none of the cool stuff.
there’s zero punk in our current society
Well, there’s “low life” part for sure
Sweetie, we’re all being punks right now using pirate reddit. What’s more punk than undermining oligarch control of social platforms?
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.
If you got a powerful tablet and installed Kali on it, isn’t that effectively a cyberdeck?
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.
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.
Yeah that sounds cool af
Lol, And all it cost me the ability to focus on anything not exexactly 37 inches away.
