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minus-squarea4ng3l@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up27·3 days agoAs a 80s kid I don’t recall being hyped. If anything all sci-fi books were warnings for us. Younger generations embraced the black mirror shit thought.
minus-squareChicoSuave@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·3 days agoSomewhere between Snow Crash and Hackers it became the dream instead of the nightmare.
minus-squareMasterBlaster@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 day agoFor sociopaths like Musk, yes. The rest of us, not so much.
minus-squarea4ng3l@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·3 days agoTrue for hackers… Somehow it started my career… but snow crash feels a bit like Uber-gig which isn’t what I would look forward to.
As a 80s kid I don’t recall being hyped. If anything all sci-fi books were warnings for us. Younger generations embraced the black mirror shit thought.
Somewhere between Snow Crash and Hackers it became the dream instead of the nightmare.
For sociopaths like Musk, yes. The rest of us, not so much.
True for hackers… Somehow it started my career… but snow crash feels a bit like Uber-gig which isn’t what I would look forward to.