Well, yes, but what was wrong with those societies generally wasn't the kickass transparent screens.

Minority Report had directed marketing based on eye recognition and people having to buy other people's eyes to keep out of the reach of the panopticon dystopia controlling everything - the kickass transparent screens there were definitely used for dystopic purposes.

Really it's a guns don't kill people - people kill people with guns situation; transparent screens for showing ads all the time at people don't create dystopias, but a capitalist dystopia will be using transparent screens for showing ads at people all the time if they can.

A capitalist dystopia will use anything for showing ads to people all the time if they can. Actually we're already there and have been for years. The global ad market is all about recognizing and finetuning ads to specific people, using techniques a lot more advanced than iris or facial recognition.

The ad industry will use any surface they can, but surfaces where people are already looking are especially profitable and also where ads are most annoying. With transparent displays this can and will include windows everywhere.

>using techniques a lot more advanced than iris or facial recognition.

right, I remember having to reject all advertising cookies the last time I was at the bus stop.

Imagine yourself working 8+ hours per day standing, with your arms up touching a vertical transparent display...

I guess watched very different cyberpunk movies then, since I considered them as one of the worst things showed.

If your cereal box for 2$ has endless steeam of ads or each wall has active ad panel, and so does everything else, thats fuckex up future I'd gladly pay extra to avoid, and double that for my kids. Nothing kickass about that, on contrary.

Per the parent comment, the screen isn’t problematic so much as the culture around them. The dystopic aspect is that they’re used for advertising rather than that they exist.

"Amazing" doesn't have to mean something positive; it often does involve some aspect of delight in common parlance, but it needn't always be used with that intent.

Perhaps amazingly, I myself think that waking up in a scene from Minority Report would be absolutely terrific.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/terrific