A transhumanistic edge of society in dystopia. Daily life has been impacted by rapid technological takeover.
cross-posted from: https://corteximplant.com/users/x00001/statuses/112491302665199252
(title added by community mod)
Pirated for Alt TextImage 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
(Originally published on corteximplant.com: 2024-05-23) - Click the Fedi-Link to visit.
I advise young people that they are, in fact, living in a dystopian YAF novel, and yes, their own parents and teachers and ministers are (often without conscious self-awareness) setting them up to be disposable, replaceable components (soldiers and laborers) in the vanity projects of plutocrats, and the path of least resistance will lead them to this fate of being worked until they're worn out, and then cast aside.
Their story is how they escape this path. If they take too long, it's how they secretly serve the resistance while not alerting the authorities, but that's hard mode.
It's not cyberpunk to my knowledge, but there's apparently a story out there that makes fun of this type of sci fi description writing, by telling what seems to be a military adventure story about going to fight and conquer some aliens, but is revealed by the very end to actually have been the story of the conquistador that conquered the Inca empire, but with everything described this way such that it sounds like more advanced technology than it is.
Vaping is gross