Daniel Lowe @dl@cantos.social

#Cyberpunk is '80s #Steampunk in almost every way now. A mostly aesthetics-driven view of a future that never was from a past that felt immortal at the time.

This is totally wild. Some malicious nut with a drone is closing down an airport. #cyberpunk https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/dec/20/the-drone-crackdown-gatwick-if-a-trained-eagle-cant-stop-them-what-will

When I was but a wee lad, reading my #Cyberpunk novels in the mid-to-late 80s, one sticking point I had with the genre was that surely no one would attach critical systems or physical security to the global Internet. Right?

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Right??