there’s zero punk in our current society
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
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
Open source fitmware or nothing.
and strictly offline
Jockey literally lost his exoskeleton due to end of life.
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.
Meanwhile IRL cool cybernetic implants: I’m sorry our company has been bought by Amazon and support for your eyes has been dropped. Please refer to a local surgeon to remove them at your expense.
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those cool cybernetic implants aren’t that cool imo
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.
We are not even going to get dense cities like Night City. Imagine how much worse the cyberpunk dystopia is going to be with a 2.5 hour commute each way from the suburbs along a mega highway.
Do NYC, Seattle, SF, London, Tokyo, and all of the other dense cities not exist anymore?
We’re approaching a cool cyberpunk future but can’t even get wet streets with reflective purple neon signs 😔
Seattle has the wet streets covered. Someone just needs to install some signs.
Talk to c/hydrohomies if you have trouble with streets not being wet enough
This is fair, if we had neon shit and cybernetics it would make the world a little cooler I guess.
Nah, they’d make it like repo.
Depending on where you live, you can also have the cool neon aesthetic.
