So I'm playing Cyberpunk, and it got me thinking about scifi dystopia and i thought, i could totally imagine a world where the mega corps basically rule everything and everyone has augmented technology. techs not here yet, but big coprs do sort of control everything now anyway. Robocop was the same idea.
course, some people like simulation theory, so more of a matrix.
or perhaps just a Juege Dread style authoritarian urban collapse.
Now, I'm not saying I think x or y will happen, just asking which ones you guys think are the most plausible.
Dystopian novels, stories and settings are akin to porn, imo. Many enjoy spending time in that setting for the same reason many news casters adopted the saying if it bleeds it leads. We have this biological need to entertain such an extreme cynicism about society that it successfully gets replicated across mediums countless times. It's why we see it so often. And everyone can relate to that portrayal of society because we all can see hints of it in our life from government, corporations, etc. Name your bad guy.
But at the core, people are fucking amazing. We seek out ways to avoid this setting at whatever cost and will always continue to do-so. Many of the people on this site most likely stumbled upon Bitcoin in their search for freedom and sovereignty tech. I don't foresee a dystopia simply because of our constant determination to undermine and thwart attempts to arrive at that extreme.
oh i can see why we are drawn to the genre, same as how true crime is very popular.
When you say you don't foresee a dystopia, i would push back and say that there are many countires that are currently living in one, just not a sci fi one (NK example), most of human history has been brutal and even in first world countries, many people live in situations that they would probably call dystopian, probably why people keep coming back to dream of socialism.
that aside, this post was just about which hypothetical dystopias seem the most credable
AI will "honey pot" humanity and we will stop breeding. Our extinction is going to look a lot more like WALL-E than the Terminator.
even without AI we;ve stopped breeding, which is why the birth replacement rates are fucked almost everywhere lol
The elite future sex robots will just speed it up
WALL-E was so ahead of its time, one of my favourite movies oat
Since you're specifically asking about dystopias, we can throw out all the scenarios where humanity sort of gets its shit together.
In that case, I lean towards an Idiocracy scenario. People keep getting lazier, attention spans keep shrinking, concern about the surrounding world vanish.
It's still rule by megacorporations, but not because they're so conniving and sophisticated, it's just because no one really cares to put a check on them.
on many occasions i have thought ' we are basically already in Idiocracy' lol
1984 on steroids
gritty, neon steroids
Apagón, Apagón, Apagón, que aquí está el Exterminator 🤣
Dumb robots everywhere around us. But not terribly efficient or exceptional.
A few are inevitable, only a question of when, not if
Classist/Marxist ideas of dystopia are a luxurious indulgence
Something like GATTACA
(2018)