Re:A Cyberpunk Bathroom in the Middle of Nowhere
by mechanical_bear on Wednesday March 22, 2023 @11:26AM
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That was not their reaction. They just wanted to know how it qualifies as “cyber punk”.
Re:A Cyberpunk Bathroom in the Middle of Nowhere
by inanutshellus on Wednesday March 22, 2023 @11:45AM
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FWIW - I thought st_goliath went to great lengths to point out how it's "cyber punk".
Re:A Cyberpunk Bathroom in the Middle of Nowhere
by mechanical_bear on Wednesday March 22, 2023 @11:50AM
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Agreed, I was merely pointing out what their initial comment was saying.
Re:A Cyberpunk Bathroom in the Middle of Nowhere
by Eiriksmal on Wednesday March 22, 2023 @12:25PM
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The cyberurinals coupled with the bleak sculpture garden[0] outside Eddie's truly do make for a great Stephenson aside, come to life. It's only missing Gibson's combat hovercraft tanks parked by the statues, instead of Ford Raptors.
0: https://www.google.com/maps/@34.9079089,-116.844012,3a,75y,9...
And here we are discussing a toilet that probably films you piss, analyzes the data and uses it as input for a video game, all using a built-in computer and display mounted on top. A touch screen no less, because the team involved in developing this, despite probably countless meetings, never even gave a second though towards hygiene, I guess.
A marvel of technology that I could imagine the likes of Neal Stephenson describing in loving detail over at least two pages, describing how the data is hauled off to some remote machine in a data center, collecting statistics of no use to anyone, from hundreds of such installations, all secured only by a couple default passwords.
And our reaction to this is: So? What off it?