Cyberdyne Systems, Wayland-Yutani Corporation, Tyrell Corporation, or Arasaka Corporation? Something else?

  • cybervseasEnglish
    76·
    5 months ago

    Nah nothing that cool. A megacorp that has so much influence that it doesn’t need a military of its own. It knows everything it needs to about everyone, can sway public opinion as it wishes, and will continue to enmesh itself into every aspect of private and public life. It produces no products. We are the products, and we are the consumers.

    And it’s already here: Google, Meta, whatever Elon Musk is doing idk.

    • tourist
      11·
      5 months ago

      Sometimes the companies they subcontract, named something boring and innocuous like Isolace Data Systems or Wimblo Digital or some shit, fucks up spectacularly.

      Like they’ll just have 400gb Excel spreadsheet called all_meta_usernames_and_passwords.xlsx stored in the company’s shared intranet and then some dude guesses the WiFi password was WimbloDigital2024 and leaks it to whoever.

    • 1984@lemmy.today
      4·
      5 months ago

      Yeah I don’t see how anyone can not see it’s Google… Who else is even close to having all our data? All the web searches, mobile android play backend, maps, Google streetcar, etc etc… They know everything.

  • theywilleatthestars
    53·
    5 months ago

    The world got its first dystopian megacorp several hundred years ago and it was called the East India Company

    • stringere@sh.itjust.works
      6·
      5 months ago

      You down with OCP (Yeah you know me)

      Who’s down with OCP (Every last homie)

      You down with OCP (Yeah you know me)

      Who’s down with OCP (All the homies)

      • neidu3@sh.itjust.worksMEnglish
        2·
        5 months ago

        I’m not sure if that’s OC or a reference I’m not cultured enough to understand, but I can absolutely imagine a modern OCP advertising jingle like that, showing how down with everyone OCP is and totally not evil in any shape or form. The TV ad of course shows people dancing to it like it’s some coke ad.

    • seaQueue
      17·
      5 months ago

      The joke’s on us, we’ve been in the dystopic megacorp era since the 00’s.

    • AnticorpEnglish
      21·
      5 months ago

      Amazon is damned near benevolent compared to some of the corporations out there.

  • radixEnglish
    21·
    5 months ago

    RobCo

    Military contractor and aerospace giant obsessed with autonomous AI.

    Replace Robert House with El*n and it’s halfway there already.

  • Lemming421English
    19·
    5 months ago

    Tyrell, because Paypalpatine wants his sex robots, ands that means replicants.

    • SGforce@lemmy.ca
      8·
      5 months ago

      But the other Paypalpatine is building the precrime Minority Report machine. We’re really getting the worst of all these fucking shitheads combined.