High Tech, Low Life: We're In a Cyberpunk Hellscape
Tue Dec 16 2025
We're living in a cyberpunk hellscape and nobody's talking about it. Megacorporations run everything. Surveillance is constant. The wealth gap is astronomical. AI is taking jobs while billionaires race to Mars. We've got all the high tech dystopian nightmare fuel with none of the cool aesthetics.
From data mining to gig economy exploitation, algorithmic control to techno-feudalism—we're breaking down how cyberpunk fiction became our reality. William Gibson tried to warn us. We didn't listen. Now we're here. What do we do about it?
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We're living in a cyberpunk hellscape and nobody's talking about it. Megacorporations run everything. Surveillance is constant. The wealth gap is astronomical. AI is taking jobs while billionaires race to Mars. We've got all the high tech dystopian nightmare fuel with none of the cool aesthetics. From data mining to gig economy exploitation, algorithmic control to techno-feudalism—we're breaking down how cyberpunk fiction became our reality. William Gibson tried to warn us. We didn't listen. Now we're here. What do we do about it?