Bullet-list musings on our cyberpunk dystopia
- We’re all masked up
- We are in the midst of a pandemic, and an accelerating climate catastrophe
- People are setting video of our world to the soundtracks of Blade Runner movies, and it really works
- Corporations are approaching governments in power and influence
- Corporations are also becoming more concentrated through M&A, and it’s getting harder for new entrants to the market to challenge them. This is particularly true in technology
- We all walk around with portable computing devices that have more oomph than all the computers that existed in the world together until very recently
- Heck, that’s also true of many of our watches
- Inequality is accelerating, and all of the gains we have made in productivity lately are more and more concentrated
- The super-rich are getting ready to bail on us, and ride this whole thing out in mega resorts, or maybe even orbit
- Yesterday my bank stored my conversation with them in order to create a voice print for security reasons