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Discussion on: When Sci-fi Gets Real: Which Story Hits Too Close to Home?

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Ryan Brown

I've been living as a literature version of a NPC in a Gibson-esq Neuromancer era pulp sci-fi novel. I may have come across the main characters at some point. Perhaps it was looking up at the sky, the colour of a TV tuned to a dead channel, on my way to work as a shift-programmer for a Corp. Perhaps it was using virtual meet-ups in our interconnected matrix during a global outbreak. Perhaps it's in discussions with or about the nascent machine intelligence (plural) both giving hope and despair. All while human rights and climate are placed squarely in the target reticle of ever more consolidated power and money.

I have a pocket version of what would have been a super computer to my childhood self. I don't do much with it except read news or sometimes play a game. We basically have cyberdecks but used to track us and sell us stuff (or sell us to others), brain-computer interfaces are being developed by fascist supporters.

It's been a rough week.