• @pete_the_catEnglish
      1•1 hour ago

      Times Square is tiny though, in relation to the rest of Manhattan.

      • @[email protected]English
        2•1 hour ago

        Yeah, but most places (within city limits) there tends to be at least one neon signage visible from somewhere - a nail salon, a barber shop, etc. Regardless, it’s a fair point that most places look more like the right than the left images (in the OP)… but not exclusively!

        img

        But it mostly comes out at night

        img

  • Björn Tantau
    13•4 hours ago

    You better start believing in Cyberpunk dystopias, Miss Turner. You’re in one!

  • @[email protected]
    8•4 hours ago

    Yeah the neons are missing. But I have the cybernetic implants and I’m far from the only one.
    You can buy them here.

      • @[email protected]
        7•3 hours ago

        I have several RFID and NFC implants. I use them for several things: I have a payment implant so I can pay contactless with my hand (the payment implant is sold by DT’s partner Walletmor), I open doors, start my car without keys, share my contact information, log into my computers and I use my one cryptographic implant for 2FA.

        It’s not Ghost in the Shell by any stretch of the imagination, but those little implants that you can get today really do make life better and more convenient.

        • @[email protected]OP
          3•3 hours ago

          Ah yes what boring times, we get cybernetics and what do we do with it? Run faster? Punch bricks? Jump super high?

          Nope, pay for your coffee without a wallet. But hey at least you are still tracked and logged.

          • @[email protected]
            1•3 hours ago

            But hey at least you are still tracked and logged.

            So are you, each time you pull out your payment card to pay for something, because it’s exactly the same thing. Or all the time when you carry your cellphone around.

            What’s your point?

              • @[email protected]
                1•3 hours ago

                If you tell me where one can get real cyber implants that give you the superhuman abilities you mentioned, I’ll get them rightaway.

                But unfortunately, RFID / NFC implants and sensing magnets are the best you can get if you’re interested in human augmentation. it’s a bit pathetic, yes, but nobody is working on anything more sophisticated because no doctor will touch operating on healthy human beings for voluntary augmentation with a ten-foot pole.

                I want my tiny piece of the future and I got it with my boring implants. Sorry to be so disappointing to you.

                • @[email protected]OP
                  1•3 hours ago

                  Yeah those would be cool and I would also like to know where to get them. Its too bad we live in a boring dystopia and not the cool one.

    • @SlopppyEngineer
      3•2 hours ago

      You can buy them already, but they’re at least 10 times as expensive as regular cars and you need a piloting license too. Meanwhile regular cars and the normal driving license are already getting pretty expensive for people.

      Flying cars also need a runway, a heliport or a wide open space. eVTOLs and other flying cars are usually not small and need more space than a car for taking off or landing, especially in non-ideal weather.