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

  • Sigmatics@lemmy.ca
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    2 years ago

    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.

  • Gutless2615@ttrpg.networkEnglish
    2·
    2 years ago

    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.

  • Syrc@lemmy.world
    2·
    2 years ago

    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…”

  • Asifall@lemmy.world
    1·
    2 years ago

    When I think about the fact that Facebook thought it was a good idea to name their online VR platform “the metaverse“ it still breaks my brain a little bit

  • CocaineShark@lemmy.ml
    1·
    2 years ago

    If you think about it, all sorts of fucked up things that are happening now have been portrayed as a bad thing in past media: Virtual words, virtual-fuckin’ land (not 100% sure this one is real, still really hoping its not), misuse of AI, smart houses, where everything is controlled by a remote (which relies on electricity / wi-fi), even stuff like alexa, which is listening to every word you say, at your home…

  • archchan@lemmy.ml
    1·
    2 years ago

    Pretty much. Welcome to the fucking future I guess. There’s no flying cars and green cities and happiness or bloody universal healthcare, instead we have corpos trying to turn us into their consumer slaves and governments turning authoritarian. Just do what you’re told and buy more. Don’t ask questions don’t think just browse TikTok, improve your social credit score, and imprint more ads into your psyche until WW3.

    We’re walking into hell with our eyes wide open fuck me it hurts.

  • WhoRoger@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 years ago

    I find it amusing how nobody noticed when Valve changed their name to Valve Corporation ages ago, and people keep referring to it as Valve Software.

  • 1984@lemmy.today
    1·
    2 years ago

    You didn’t mention Facebook? That’s super dystopian to me. What’s a face book if not a large collection of identities being monitored?

    • Benj1B@sh.itjust.works
      1·
      2 years ago

      It sounds like a cursed item in D&D or something.

      The Book of Faces Wondrous Item, very rare

      This enchanted tome magically records the likeness each humanoid slain in its vicinity, preserving a snapshot of their life and memories. The book can be read to glean superficial information about it’s subjects. As an action, you can tear a page from the book to summon a ghostly spirit of its subject, which will be magically compelled to answer questions. The spirit knows nothing the owner did not know in life.

      The Demon Lord Elgor Ithym is said to have a keen interest in this book…

    • fubo@lemmy.world
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      2 years ago

      What’s a face book if not a large collection of identities being monitored?

      Well, historically (and I mean in the 1990s) it was a collection of names and photographs of all the new students at your college, to help in meeting people and/or to see who’s hot.