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ShowerthoughtsEnglish • 1 year ago

Big Tech companies are finally getting the names we thought dystopian megacorps would have

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Big Tech companies are finally getting the names we thought dystopian megacorps would have

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ShowerthoughtsEnglish • 1 year ago

Meta Platforms. X Corp. tell me those aren’t straight from a strangely prescient cyberpunk classic

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Those names were always parodying the names of actual corporations. I’m pretty sure Weyland Yutani is basically supposed to be like Lockheed Mitsubishi

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