Yeah… solely we do not have the cool cyberware. It’ll be scary after we do develop these items, it’s going to be used in opposition to us.

Scifi has hardly ever been about describing what the longer term would realistically appear to be (and remotely correct prognostication has to date proved not possible). It’s usually been about holding up a mirror to our present period, reflecting our social anxieties. Or imparting ethical messages by way of elaborate cautionary tales. Or exploring a philosophical idea to its furthest extremes. Whatever.

I dunno…..

There have been quite a lot of issues predicted by the low funds Max Headroom TV collection that got here out within the 80’s which got here to cross inside a decade.

In Cyberpunk Red, you possibly can have your Agent (tremendous cellular phone) be a digital individual which might result in eventualities just like the Gatebox product being developed beneath. I’m utilizing this concept in a present Cyberpunk sport as a means of giving missions to a single character who would not know whether or not or not the individual giving him these missions is actual, digital, a netrunner, or a rogue AI.

Lets not neglect Demolition Man, it predicted tablets, zoom calls, hate speech, Dr.Cocteau Professor Klaus Schwab, amongst different issues.