Meta Platforms. X Corp. tell me those aren’t straight from a strangely prescient cyberpunk classic
You should snopes check that one. They did acquire non working ships as payment, but they scrapped em. What you said is technically correct, but oversells it.
Now we just need companies to have their own militaries and then for someone to nuke one of their towers. We’d have the whole nine yards.
“He burned down half the city just to prove he was right and burned the other half just for fun.”
Source? Please.
He burned down half the city just to prove he was right and burned the other half just for fun.
Cyberpunk
Thanks.
No thanks.
Too bad. There’s no chance this doesn’t happen after the agricultural collapse. Well, the first bit, anyway.
Wake up Samurai…
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I could absolutely see a not-too-distant future where competitors of megacorps have their assets attacked by the government’s military.
This has already happened many times. It’s just that those “competitors” are usually referred to as “ordinary people.”
Don’t forget Truth Social. Straight out of ministry of truth.
Especially when their main selling point is that they don’t do fact checking.
That’s not new, it’s just new to English. I lot of Soviet countries had pravda.
I still think it’s hilarious that Facebook renamed to Meta, and anything they did with the “metaverse” was a huge failure. It’s like they didn’t learn their lesson from Second Life.
Second Life isn’t owned by Meta. And just by the amount of money Second Life earned, and somehow still earns to this day, it was a pretty huge success. The only real success in the “virtual world” field. It’s not surprising somebody else would try to emulate that success.
They don’t own it, that means they can’t know about it?
Why would they learn from a mistake that wasn’t even a mistake and wasn’t theirs to begin with? Like, what is the point you are trying to make?
I think the confusion begins with your statement that Meta didn’t “learn their lesson from Second Life.” What’s the lesson they should have learned? Why should Meta have learned a lesson from something they didn’t own?
The big lesson from Second Life to me is that it’s a novelty for 95% of potential users, and a fixation for a few true believers.
VR and AR are in that era of radio in the 1920s, or personal computers in 1977. They’re interesting, people might gawk at one for a little while if given access to it, but right now, the long-term audience is going to be primarily enthusiasts who are passionate about the technology for its own sake.
We’re still waiting for a lot of details to snap into place to make it broadly appealing:
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The hardware and setup needs to be turnkey. Newer kit is getting a lot closer, but I think it’s going to be hard because you have to factor in things like “setting up a wide enough floor space to avoid injuring yourself when using it” and “we haven’t really resolved that this gives a fair number of people violent sickness”
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There need to be killer apps. Some of the VR experiences seem like they’d be fun, but eventually exhausting. It’s sort of like the motion control (Wii/Kinect/PSMove) trend-- people enjoyed them, but it seemed like it burnt through quickly, rather than becoming a core part of new gaming experiences going forward.
AR likely has an easier road to “killer app” because it can be applied to a bunch of vertical use cases; I’m picturing a fry-cook with a heads-up display that tracks how long each patty has been on the grille and its internal temperature, for example. Even if mainstream consumers never buy AR gear, there might be a million devices sold to businesses. Makes me think of Windows CE; the consumer launch was muted, but it was on a billion scanner-oriented devices for years.
“There need to be killer apps” you say, but have you looked at the VR titles on Steam etc?
There are already a lot of fantastic VR games. Touristy cities even have VR gaming arcades where you can pay high prices to play on their VR kits.
The main barrier to wider adoption is the high price for good VR equipment, and the runner up is probably the complexity of setting up and using the systems. So yes that’s similar to PCs in the early days, maybe like the 90s were with PCs and the Internet.
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Don’t forget the conglomerate names:
Microsoft-Activision-Blizzard
“Well, there was a bit of a stir when it was decided that since corporations are people, they could technically run for president. But President Walt Disney-Pepsi-Comcast has done wonders for the economy… given that it’s… now the economy”
Don’t blame me I voted for Tim Apple
Shinra-Mishima-Zaibatsu
My first ISP in the late 90s was Skynet Online.
I’m actually pretty surprised Elon didn’t call StarLink SkyNet.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skynet_(satellite)
The UK already owns it. I’m pretty sure Terminator takes the name from the UK military satellite network. And SpaceX has launched Skynet satellites for them before so there is probably some agreement.
The NSA also already has a surveillance program named SKYNET, which uses machine learning. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SKYNET_(surveillance_program)
That one I’m pretty sure was named after the Terminator program.
Those names were always parodying the names of actual corporations. I’m pretty sure Weyland Yutani is basically supposed to be like Lockheed Mitsubishi
Oh and don’t forget the cheeky suckers that explicitly named their nutritional supplement company Soylent Nutrition, Inc.
i do like soylent tho. i’m gonna go shake one up rn
Now you know what happened to all those immigrant kids at the border
That’s not funny. Seriously. I’m getting so fucking sick of “dark comedy” or especially “deep chararacters in an engaging story” that abuses shock factor by dead dropping child death.
Good for you.
is it better than Huel? Huel tasted awful
In my experience none of them taste great, but if you make them part of your daily flow you get over it pretty quickly. I’ve heard good things about the newer pre-mixed and flavored ones, but I got to a good place with my nutrition a few years ago and stopped using pretty much all meal replacements.
so I’m curious, do you just not eat any actual food anymore other than Soylent?
its an option, but most ppl do eat food still. simply because they enjoy the taste more.
Honestly I never really got meal replacements like it’s basically a drink so you are still eating your just not chewing so what’s the point is the point to not cook is it that you just don’t want to move your jaw is this just something I can’t comprehend because I’m autistic what
personally i want to get at least 1000 kcal a day in soylent, so that i’m sure i get SOME of my rdas. otherwise i eat a lot of bean and cheese burritos. they are maybe 1/3 of what i eat besides soylent. the rest is like… whatever my wife makes or fast food.
Exact opposite! I know the language was flowery there but I basically never eat Huel/Soylent anymore
Soylent is way better than Huel. I’ve been consuming at least a serving of Soylent a day for the past four or five years, I’ve tried a few different brands including huel and they were all significantly worse than Soylent ready to drink or Soylent powder.
i drank a lot of huel. none of the flavors were great (for me).
i switched to soylent this month. the “original” flavor is just completely inoffensive. it reminds me of milk. i just hit 1080 kcal on soylent today.
i did get some of the strawberry flavor that mixes into it. that was very good, but i don’t need it every day. i’m happy just to drink the original.
It varies from person to person
It’s like whoever is offering up these names and convincing them to use them is trying to tell consumers and workers something in the countries they work and operate. That a rental service is literally named Hertz is pretty on the nose even without all the movie culture references.
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Waiting for Weyland-Yutani…
building better worlds
Union Aerospace
Time Warner
Be Warned !
DisnATTTimeWarner?
Gesundheit.
When Weyland corp announce a merger with Yutani industries it’s time to worry.
Or when Arisaka starts moving in on Militech turf.
Ngl I wouldn’t mind being chromed
Hope you don’t mind being billed for the whole surgery, including amputation of limbs you never asked for in the first place. Shiny stuff with soul crushing debt - sounds like American colleges.
I never asked for this. Wrong game, I know :)
You want a trip down “is this a cyberpunk dystopia company” name, go check out the data brokers on the data broker registries in Vermont and California.
Acxiom, Experian, TransUnion, Oracle Data Cloud, CoreLogic, Axle, Equifax, Foursquare Labs, Inc., OnAudience, Nielsen, … … … …
California itself has about 517
There’s also E Corp from Mr. Robot.
That one was clealy google, not the other way around
Is more Tencent or Samsung that Google.
Yeah but samsung in nowhere near Google’s influence in US and worldwide. But I agree these companies are HUGE in Asia.
Samsung is EVERYTHING in Korea. Not so much in the west beyond phones and smart tv’s, and Laundry machines or whatever, but in Korea, Samsung does EVERYTHING.
Yes chaebol is a concept in itself
TVs, Phones, Washing Machines? Samsung! Cars, trucks? Also, Samsung! Heavy machine equipment, cranes, etc? Believe or not, also Samsung! The Chaebol that does it all!
And the characters called it evil corp anyways so it might as well have been the name.
Not exactly, most of the characters seem to call the company E Corp but the main character (who’s also the narrator) “corrects it” in his head.
I’m still waiting for the cool neon signs.
The lady eating a cherry is burned into my brain. In the Blade Runner point-n-click game she would appear every time you’d fly out from the marketplace, because it was a prerendered cutscene.
Nah, we got cheaper and brighter LED lights blasting 24/7 and annoying everyone trying to sleep instead. Neon signs are retro now.
Normal people reading dystopian fiction: “wow, the author really portrayed well the downfall of humanity if we were to go down the wrong path”
Billionaires reading dystopian fiction: “hey, you know what…”
I also like Alliant Techsystems, then merged with Orbital Sciences Corp into Orbital ATK.
They are part of NGIS (Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems), so evil things might come from there.
