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A Boring Dystopia
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If you want the neon aesthetic, you have to go to Hong Kong.
And also technically speaking, we do have cool cybernetic implants. I mean we also have uncool cybernetic implants, too, but, like, have you seen modern prosthetic limbs? Shits practically sci-fi levels of usefulness; it just doesn't have a sense of touch like they do in the fiction. Shit even cochlear implants are kinda cool, in so far as they can make someone who is deaf or close to deaf able to hear again.
I was looking forward to someday having some nice Cannon or Panasonic or Fujifilm hi-res eyes to replace mine but my insurance won't even land me decent glasses.
I miss being able to read six-point font or see more than ten meters in front of me.
Equivalent eyes would have to be way better than any camera we have today.
and...?