• Wogi@lemmy.world
    62·
    1 year ago

    Or cyberpunk. Or watched Blade Runner.

    Sky holograms are pretty common in corpo dystopia fiction. And maybe future non fiction. Jesus

    • captainlezbian@lemmy.world
      32·
      1 year ago

      The problem with cyberpunk fiction is that some people have no media literacy and a lot of money and decide their company should do things from their favorite stories.

      • Chariotwheel@kbin.social
        11·
        1 year ago

        I keep laughing when Palanthir comes up. Like, why name your surveillance company after these things that were used for bad in the stories.

        • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de
          10·
          1 year ago

          When i learned that there is an actual real life food company that’s called “soylent” i just felt like going to bed and skipping the next couple days, like what the fuck

          • doctorcrimson@lemmy.today
            2·
            1 year ago

            You’re telling me that in 2013 somebody made a company with the same name as a fictional company in 1966 novel Make Room Make Room! about overcrowded earth and the 1977 movie Soylent Green wherein they FEED PEOPLE TO OTHER PEOPLE AND LIE ABOUT IT?

            That’s pretty awful. I feel like that’s the absolute bottom of the barrel desperation for exposure. Why didn’t they just call it LentSoya or something?

        • SokathHisEyesOpen@lemmy.mlEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          Because they’re not trying to hide what they are. They’re telling people clear as day, and people are still trying to wrap their heads around it, inventing all sorts of excuses for the behavior of obviously evil companies.

      • InvaderDJ@lemmy.worldEnglish
        7·
        1 year ago

        Lack of media literacy is becoming a huge problem for society. People either think fiction is reality or just literally don’t understand satire, parody, and cautionary tales.

    • Chariotwheel@kbin.social
      12·
      1 year ago

      I mean, we have some clear aspects of what was feared. I think the closest country currently is South Korea, given how powerful the corporations are there.

      It goes to the point where the main thing young people work towards is the Samsung Aptitude Test, there are whole cities that basically just belong to Samsung. From the factory to the supermarkets where the factory workers shop to the flats the workers live in and spend their time off using Samsung devices.

    • raubarno@lemmy.ml
      2·
      1 year ago

      Well, image in the picture really looks like ads from WALL-E, especially those on an Axiom spaceship’s ‘fake sky’.