- Monitoring of power consumption for illegal computer usage? Check.
- Superintelligent AIs under tight supervision? Check.
- Bootlegged neural nets passed around on torrenting networks? Check.
- Poverty and homelessness running rampant? Check.
Folks, we're officially living in a cyberpunk dystopia.
Compared to what, exactly? because over the last 50 years, there have been dramatic improvements[1].
[1]: https://www.brookings.edu/research/the-evolution-of-global-p...
It's true - there's room to do better. So, so much better. But discarding the progress of the last 50 years is so unbelievably counter-productive.
San Francisco is ground-zero for the coming cyberpunk dystopia.