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1/Time for a fun thread. It's REMARKABLE how much cyberpunk sci-fi from the 1980s and early 1990s has now become reality.
2/Hacking and cybercrime are now a daily fact of life. money.cnn.com/2017/09/07/pf/…
3/Cyberwar is a reality too. thenation.com/article/a-new-…
4/Shadowy billionaires wage meme wars to mind-control the populace. theguardian.com/politics/2017/…
5/Murderous cyborg super-athlete? We had one of those: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_Pis…
6/You say you want a new kidney, constructed from goop? Pretty cyberpunk. economist.com/news/science-a…
7/Control computers with your mind! cnn.com/2017/04/12/hea…
8/Deaf people can hear sound, thanks to biomechanical engineering!
9/Police using killer robots against urban snipers: cnn.com/2016/07/12/us/…
10/International terrorist armies using drone warfare: washingtonpost.com/news/checkpoin…
11/Criminals assaulting you right through your computer screen: cnn.com/2017/03/17/us/…
12/Everyone is connected to the internet everywhere, though hideous inequality persists: pewglobal.org/2016/02/22/sma…
13/I thought the plot of Snow Crash was silly, then a meme virus took down my country: motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/…
14/Now you can be a street samurai in Texas: usatoday.com/story/news/nat…
15/"Artificial intelligences" trading in financial markets: venturebeat.com/2017/05/06/ai-…
16/And of course, "AI" can beat humans at any mental game: techcrunch.com/2017/05/23/goo…
17/Tech billionaires reach for the stars with private spaceship companies:
18/...while in their back yard, people are living out of shipping containers: businessinsider.com/live-in-shippi…
19/The government spies on everyone, all the time, assisted by shadowy mega-corporations: theintercept.com/2017/02/22/how…
20/And people are out there experimenting with DIY body mods: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grinder_(…
21/Forget body mods...there are people doing genetic engineering in their basements!! projectearth.us/inside-the-gar…
22/You ready for a pig-to-human organ transplant? theatlantic.com/science/archiv…
23/And normal objects in your house are being hijacked for cybercrime: krebsonsecurity.com/2016/10/hacked…
24/Even cyberpunk fashion is cool now, or so I hear. 
25/I admit that Japanese mega-corporations are no longer buying up the world. And yet... techcrunch.com/2017/05/20/sof…
26/@GreatDismal's famous quote - "The future is here, it's just not evenly distributed" - remains the defining statement of our times.
27/Sci-fi usually gets the future totally wrong. But the cyberpunks got it pretty much totally right. (end)
Dang it, I forgot virtual pop singers! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatsune_M…
