The Cyberpunk Zeitgeist

Cyborg Rights Activist

Advocate for the safe and moral proliferation of emerging technology to benefit society and reduce inherent risks.

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Transhumanists, Technogaians, Futurists, & Cyberians have shown we can use humanity’s greatest tool—a near-deific domain over innovation—to mold this fractal reality into our vision. But is it chaos, order, or some harmonious Dao in between that we seek?

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We must educate ourselves,
Build our world,
Harness new innovations,
Author our own reality.

This is the Cyberpunk Zeitgeist.

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Even these far-off speculative cases of the limits of engineering can provide further insight into what directions we should head with our current Astro-engineering efforts. For more work by Freeman Dyson, a brilliant physicist, check out some of his books.

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Through an offhanded observation of the aberrant light patterns of a distant star which Freeman Dyson casually suggested could be what an alien megastructure looks like to our telescopes.

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This is an early example of mega scale engineering, which is a speculative glimpse into how civilizations far higher on the kardashev scale might meet energy demands of a massive population.

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The faster our societies choose to pursue innovation as a solution to coming climate and political chaos, the more we can avert the consequences of these disasters. Asimov has similar ideas in Foundation.

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The speculative approach to future tech in new cyberpunk fiction provides insight into how human nature will change in coming decades. William Gibson’s The Peripheral portrays the coming ‘Jackpot’ where the acceleration of tech innovation will directly correlate with disaster.

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The elimination of fossil fuel energy reliance is possible if we take these gradual steps with urgency. Green technology will prove to be a key industrial boom to supply the economic support for this move to clean energy.

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Check out "12 Major Cities Have Committed to Divesting from Fossil Fuels" at: https://t.co/bvTRLrWfqh

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Alternative food sources could be an integral part of resource management in the future. Environmental strain could be what leads humans to consider options that require less space as well as less food and water expenditures to produce food for a growing population.

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Where do you predict America will head as necessity provides further necessity for green energy sources?

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Looking towards a green future isn't just about solar and wind energy. There is a plethora of technology that promises greener power from increased nuclear power, to increased hydrogen reliance, to the creation of tidal energy facilities.

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The implementation of technology on small scales may be the only way to prevent increasing class divide between access to technology To provide power to the people, technology and innovation has to be reclaimed from academic labs and places back into the hands of the Cyberpunks.

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Media distractions and the continued dramatization of American politics as an entertainment event rather than a forum for the discussion of policy only further exemplifies just how Cyberpunk the world has become.

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It’s become clear that bureaucracy, in its purposeful ineffectiveness and bloating, can’t keep up with innovation. If we hope to use emergent technology to the benefit of humanity, the country’s regulation is not an effective approach to this issue.

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Douglas Rushkoff, early documented of many cyberpunk subcultures in his book Cyberia, writes about how recent crises have forced us to the way the privileged class is beginning to covet technology for their own “escape” from the world’s problems.

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Check out: A Cyberpunk's Guide to Emerging Technology in the Modern Day for some core introductory talking points about cyberpunk technology's current impact. Introduced are topics like artificial intelligence, biotechnology, and climate technology.

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Which of these emerging technologies do you think has the greatest chance of being misused to the detriment of progress?

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Which emerging technology do you believe will have the greatest impact on quality of life in the next decade?

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This resource details a great introduction to core concepts relating to transhumanist ideas, how they are applied, and what their effects may be both in the long term and short term.

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While I prepare a short article regarding the near-future state of some emerging technologies and how they apply to our lives today, I'd like to recommend HumanityPlus's compilation of information in this regard in the Transhumanist FAQ.

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