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We're all just characters in someone else's cyberpunk story (corteximplant.com)
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Image description: the yaer was Two Thousand and twenty-four. I took a puff of my Electronic-Cigarette, inhaling the vapours. my mobile terminal buzzed in my pocket, a flat slab of microchips and glossy touchscreen. I ignored it....... probably another Electronic-Mail

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[-] LEONHART@slrpnk.net 55 points 7 months ago

The near-blinding kaleidoscope of lights and color faded to blackness as my virtual reality headset powered down. Pulling the headset away, I yawned and blinked, my eyes adjusting to the LED lighting that bathed my gaming space in neon. I fumbled to turn off the lights. Many colleagues of mine had taken to configuring such devices with voice recognition and control, but truthfully, I was too uneasy to do so myself, fearing who might be listening on the other end.

I checked the device in my pocket for the current time. Damn. Later than I hoped.

I walked sluggishly away to bed, punching buttons on the slab in my hand until alarms were set, calendars were reviewed, and quiet again took the space.

[-] asteriskeverything@lemmy.world 15 points 7 months ago

Wait nooo you made this a genre I actually want!!!Modern, within our grasp technology, yet written in this futuristic detective noir style. Kinda like Veronica Mars was a modern take on the style.

[-] caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 5 points 6 months ago

Or like William Gibson writing in William Gibson’s style

[-] nik9000@programming.dev 4 points 6 months ago

In case you haven’t heard of it, check out Altered Carbon. It’s a series and the first book is cyberpunk noir detective stuff. Rest aren’t. Good, but not in the noir style.

[-] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 1 points 6 months ago

Contemporary, but make it crunchy. Make it pulpy.

[-] edwardbear@lemmy.world 32 points 7 months ago

Imagine being in the Victorian Era and reading a sci-fi novel on how daily life in the future includes dodging nigerian princes, offering you millions of dollars, and penis enlargement offers.

[-] jaybone@lemmy.world 12 points 7 months ago

Ye olde Coin of Bit.

[-] edwardbear@lemmy.world 9 points 7 months ago

everybody used to bite nickel, now everybody bitcoin

[-] ThirdWorldOrder@lemm.ee 3 points 7 months ago

And all the hot singles right around you

[-] nyahlathotep@sh.itjust.works 22 points 7 months ago

def the dumbest cyberpunk story

[-] asteriskeverything@lemmy.world 21 points 7 months ago

And that is all they did for the next 36 hours.

[-] TheBat@lemmy.world 18 points 7 months ago

Honestly, it would be fun to rewrite an old story with modern terminology.

[-] lars@lemmy.sdf.org 12 points 7 months ago

Shakespeare didn’t sound like classical poshness to his works’ first audiences. It had new words in it and didn’t require mispronunciations in order to rhyme. It was more like storytelling via rap battle and I’m down for some early 21st-century upgrades to it.

[-] echodot@feddit.uk 6 points 7 months ago

There is a whole bunch of 21st century rewrites of Shakespeare but I can’t remember who did them. It might have been the BBC.

I know that Macbeth takes place in a Michelin star restaurant. And I’m fairly sure Taming Of The Shrew takes place in a Centre Parcs

[-] squeakycat@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 months ago

Similarly, I’ve seen a few operas that were modernizes. To varying success… The ring cycle doesn’t really work well with that butbla bohem was pretty good.

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