futurology
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We Officially Live in a Cyberpunk Dystopia
Listen. Things are bad. But consider how much worse they could be! Sure, our modern world may have the societal institutions outpaced by technological advancement, rapidly decaying ecosystem, insular extremist communities, and rampant income inequality that codify the cyberpunk genre, but consider this: we don’t have a single Blade Runner-style blimp advertising life in the…
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Netflix’s New Cyberpunk: Edgerunners Trailer May Have Liquified My Eyeballs
When the first full trailer for Netflix’s anime series Cyberpunk: Edgerunners arrived at the beginning of the month, my colleague Linda Codega bemoaned how little the plot was revealed in the trailer. And yet, this new and NSFW trailer for the series, based on the world of the Cyberpunk 2077 video game, manages to reveal…
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A Brief History Of Stephen Hawking Being A Bummer
Stephen Hawking is at it again, saying it’s a “near certainty” that a self-inflicted disaster will befall humanity within the next thousand years or so. It’s not the first time the world’s most famous physicist has raised the alarm on the apocalypse, and he’s starting to become a real downer. Here are some of the…