No.46540 [View All]
So much cyberpunk stuff seems to take place in cities. How'd things be going in rural areas?
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No.49017
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No.49029
>>46540
Don't you read any of the major cyberpunk works? They often make mention of it. Massive automated farms and isolated rural areas and shit. Gibson's "Count Zero" has a whole section in a farmhouse that looks like a shitshow on the outside but inside is all reinforced with a high-tech biomedical lab, genetically and cybernetically augmented guard dogs, and automated defenses.
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No.49060
>>48960
>That greenhouse plantation
>tfw you will never have one of your own
why did you give me this feel?
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No.49408
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No.49409
>tfw I will never drive KITT into the sunset of a rural Eastern Europe country
Rural areas are interesting to bike through at night, i've done it a few times.
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No.49410
>>49409
Hey bud!
I live near a forest and I do just that,
Once a car passed by and they saw me for a sec.
People just don't get the appeal of riding a bike in complete darkness at 3am by
-10 celcius…
I don't live in eastern europe though.
That would be lovely.
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No.49414
why would u call urself liberal uness ur like a classical liberal like thomas jefferson.
liberal is a derogatory term describing uneducated people that dont understand politics
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No.49444
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No.49477
This one is slightly more urban.
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No.49507
>>49444
Being a liberal shows that you have a deep understanding of base emotions and empathy, while lacking even the most basic understanding of logic and politics.
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No.49508
When you're in cyberspace, how can you tell urban from rural? I mean, I've got fiber running in front of my 'ruburbia' acreage, though I sure as hell can't afford it. But in the midst of all of the other cable modem subscribers how can you tell where I'm shitposting from?
In real life though, it's the lunatics with polebarns that are creating motorized abortions that inspire academics to study swarm behavior and hysteresis to provide corps the basis to make something like Big Dog. But we had it first. Without the theory and math and patents. Farmers helped give the impetus for personal computers and until recently there was a UNC dairy operation that direly depended on a venerable Apple II. Surely cyberpunk thrives on urban environments but it was nurtured by yokels until it be fashionable enough to garner favor with a more sophisticated crowd.
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No.49522
>>49508
I've noticed that too. It seems like a lot of things start off as something a handful of rednecks are tinkering with, but it doesn't work well enough to depend on, or isn't very versitile. Then some university or r&d firm spends billions of dollars to make a version that works well and costs several million dollars each, made with the latest tech and manufacturing processes. Then, now that the finer points of the design are known, Cletus builds one out of worn out car parts, plywood and a metric fuck ton of zip ties. Then finially it gets handed off to urbanites for some polish. Simplifying the build process and swaping out some of the more improvised parts for more common off the shelf stuff.
Cletus's design is almost free, and might survive a nuclear blast, but you are going to need an end mill, a welder, and a belt tentioner from a 1987 jeep wranger.
The urbanite's design isn't nearly as cheap, or as durable, but you only need a hand drill, some jb weld and you can get 90% of the parts on amazon.
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No.49784
Most rural cyberpunk I've seen centers around remote compounds either with secretive important people or hidden facilities.
>>46540
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No.49788
>>49784
Gibson wrote a few chapters in Count Zero, Virtual Light and most of his last book The Peripheral in rural areas.
It's fun for me, who grew up in a trailer, looking at his take on hicks in the high-tech future.
In Count Zero one of the characters has a super computer in his barn.
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No.49845
>>49788
Ah I remember that section of CZ. He had quite a lot more than a super computer around his place
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No.50197
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No.50476
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No.50488
Lol, photos from my Russia on 8ch.
К И Б Е Р П А Н К
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No.50570
>>46808
Ha, you use google.
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No.50571
>>50488
Get the hell out of here before I hack you, Russian.
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No.50576
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>>50571
Droog, you can't hack what's already broken.
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No.50577
USA should have similar urban/rural contrasts, but I believe this one picture is shopped.
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No.50672
>>49017
i want a video game or tv show made out of this conept of weird mundane life that would be rural cyberpunk and this is a fantastic concept of that honestly
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No.50673
>>50672
i currently live in a town of 5,000 people and me and a friend are fixing up an abandoned house and getting the paperwork to own it this year and were expecting to make it a voice controlled smart home with an ai named jane, idk why but my friend is dead set on getting that last part. oh and im planing on hiding a flatscreen, my computer and his xbox in the shell of an old panasonic projection tv
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No.50674
>>50673
also we have a perfectly sized living room and bed rooms for vr and intend to make all three rooms vr capable at some point
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No.50675
>>50674
and no im not blowing smoke, ill be posting pics when we make more progress these things and not just basic house renovation
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No.50793
>>50675
Just moved to ruralville usa myself, renovating and living in shithole turn of the century house doing a simmilar but poor-mans version of this, one peice at a time. Care to detail more for inspiration?
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No.51409
from my experiences, the cyberpunk aspects of rural life currently boil down to:
>internet connected agricultural equipment (IoT)
>megacorp gene modified crops
>proprietary software and specialized OS for agricultural equipment (the farmer may own the tractor, but the software is licensed) so some farmers hack their equipment
>metadata based farming techniques
>drone overflights of fields/agridrone services
if I had to take a guess where all of this was headed, i would say it is likely that once everything goes full automated, farmers will just rent/sell land to megacorps who will conduct every step from farm to table using automation
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No.51413
>>46540
Rural Cyberpunk? You mean like satellite internet?
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No.51416
I live out in a rural area.
The best encapsulation is a small hub of high technology in the middle of nowhere. Or working on a network from a remote terminal in a grain silo which has a fiber over the air connection to the main data center.
That's what I did up until last week. Sometimes It would be working from home. Other times I'd drive to the nearest network tower, tap into the router, and then do work from there.
It was rather nice working on a networking issue in the middle of nowhere with only the gentle breath of wind and the occasional sound of wildlife in the distance.
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No.51471
>>50577
The farm in the foreground is shooped into Millennium Park in downtown Chicago.
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No.55738
>>50476
You can see this corn-tower all the way from the sticks, and you can't even imagine how strong my hateboner for this eyesore of a skyscraper is.
Remember kids, cyberpunk dystopia isn't that nice when it happens to you.
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No.55775
The Psycho-Pass anime actually ends season 1 in a wheat field I think.
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No.55789
>>46548
someone still has to manage and survey the machines
cities provide major commodities you can't find in wheatspace
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No.55841
>>46548
if anything, cities will become even more prevalent and even more dense since you'll need operators to be close to machines, sorta like has already happened with industrial towns being a thing and now cities being hives of computer operators
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No.55850
Density is a bit hard to measure, but general trend is: the older the city, the more density it has, and everything built in XX century (after trains and cars) took especially deep nosedive in the ratings.
This dedensification did not result in increase of rural population however. It only expanded the suburbs.
I don't see this trend changing in any way in the future, unless we actually hit peak oil or something.
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No.55927
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No.55928
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No.55930
>>46544
>lab-grown meat full of chemicals and preservatives
>muh ignorant hicks finally parish
>As the world pushes further into an eco-friendly green era
Is this bait?
>praising giant metropolises like they aren't cesspits already and aren't the ones that get fucked in societal collapse
>UBI
>nameshazbotry
Every time I think of this board I'm simultaneously reminded of the leftist shazbots that post on it thinking the future will be epic neon synthwave where you'll be the hero of the story and not some polluted techno jungle where "people" are leagues lower than the animals and insects that once existed. What a terrible and pretentious person you are, it's no one wonder why rural people hate cityfags like you because you aren't fucking human.
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No.55933
>>55930
>responding to posts from more than two years ago
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No.55937
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Do you even push the tempo, motherfuckers?
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No.55948
>>51409
imagine telling your dad or granddad how you farm back when they started
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No.55950
>>55930
There are actually radio advertisements sponsored by megacorps about how "organic" and "free range" should not be trusted because only megacorp brand meat and dairy has been safely processed to optimal standards of consistency and to tell all the city folk that highly processed food is better than stuff not grown to megacorp standards. Had me laughing, but then I realized ti was not a joke…
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No.55955
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No.55957
>>55955
>the virgin narrator
> chad farmer
but in all seriousness that's really interesting to someone from a small/moderate city not really near any farms
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No.55980
>>55950
Likewise, "organic" food isn't the big savior people hype it up too be. Literally just bog standard crops and livestock, but grown and raised without the pesticides and such that enable more food to be grown without the losses in yields and such that you'd get without it. Excessive use isn't good, but we're kind of reliant on pesticides because of how well they work.
As for genetic engineering, that's incredibly unlikely to be an issue unless someone intentional makes poison food or lets it crossbreed with the wild population, since in layman's terms its just speeding up the existing selective breeding process.
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No.55981
>>55980
Pesticides don't really do shit. They kill off the insects that weren't resistant and the predators or aids, the eggs and resistant ones still live so over time the pesticides serve nothing but to poison the food because they put more on it thinking that more will kill them.
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No.55983
>>55981
Such a small margin of success can still translate to having much more edible crops being harvested though. We're talking about agriculture on a scale large enough to feed millions, sometimes even billions here.
Mostly edible is better than not edible at all.
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No.55984
>>55980
>As for genetic engineering, that's incredibly unlikely to be an issue unless someone intentional makes poison food
anon…
>A small California biotech company, Epicyte, in 2001 announced the development of genetically engineered corn which contained a spermicide which made the semen of men who ate it sterile. At the time Epicyte had a joint venture agreement to spread its technology with DuPont and Syngenta, two of the sponsors of the Svalbard Doomsday Seed Vault. Epicyte was since acquired by a North Carolina biotech company. Astonishing to learn was that Epicyte had developed its spermicidal GMO corn with research funds from the US Department of Agriculture, the same USDA which, despite worldwide opposition, continued to finance the development of Terminator technology, now held by Monsanto.
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No.55985
>>55984
Well fuck, not even surprised.
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