From: cykros@devio.us   
      
   I find it amusing that you point to it being the future while posting to   
   Usenet via a BBS system :-) (not making fun...I use BBS's, and obviously   
   still use Usenet...the irony is just too much not to mention).  I'll be   
   really convinced we're in the future when we have more obvious   
   Megacorporations.  They're getting there, but not QUITE to the level of   
   Gibson novels (yet), at least in most of the Western world.   
      
   On the other hand, we do have tools for ensuring anonymity (never mind   
   things like obfsproxy, which was the most cyberpunk thing I've ever seen   
   outside of fiction), bootable systems primarily geared at network   
   intrusion, and all manner of offensive and defensive tools for network   
   and data security, in addition to a wide variety of utilities that can   
   be used most anywhere on the planet.  My only real reason for not   
   asserting that we're "there" is simply because the societal structuring   
   is not really as bad as what I envision when it comes to real cyberpunk   
   settings.  It's just not quite conducive enough to the generation of   
   anti-heroes...   
      
   cykros   
      
   On 10/06/2012 02:22 PM, Diode wrote:   
   > Ok, I don't know if we are presently living in the CP future, but god damn   
   are   
   > we getting close. I mean look at wear we are. Everyone is walking around with   
   > networked computers. I can buy, off the shelf for less that $1000, a video   
   > display visor and a rig that allows me to control a pc with my brain wave   
   > patterns. There are international hacker groups running rampant in the grid   
   > doing both good and evil. There are self driving cars, robots for home,   
   > industry and war. We have soldiers returning from was with a wide variety   
   > of state of the art robotic prosthetics.   
   >   
   > I'm just saying, it smells a lot like the future in here.   
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