• Wogi@lemmy.world
      76·
      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
        37·
        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
          14·
          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
            12·
            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
            4·
            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
          9·
          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
        14·
        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.

        • captainlezbian@lemmy.world
          12·
          1 year ago

          So company towns that haven’t started issuing scrip yet. My country tried that for a while. It ended in literal class warfare.

            • captainlezbian@lemmy.world
              14·
              1 year ago

              United States. Look into Appalachian coal miner union history. The company towns were part of the story but not the whole of the exploitation of the workers. The Battle of Blair Mountain is the most famous incident. Also the music involved fucking slaps.

                • captainlezbian@lemmy.world
                  3·
                  1 year ago

                  Yeah that makes sense. They were absolutely kept in economic bondage, with brutal treatment. And when they resisted tensions escalated. They matched to unionize and the bosses brought in mercenaries. Gunfire was exchanged, and at times machine guns were mounted to trains or nested in mountains to stop strikers. Teenagers charged them.

                  It’s worth learning more. If for no other reason than because Appalachia is a special part of the country that’s often misunderstood and it helps put their distrust of outsiders into context

      • raubarno@lemmy.ml
        3·
        1 year ago

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