I’m talking about how pockets and islands of cultures pop up everywhere within these settings, how Cyberpunk as a whole does away with national borders and lets everyone from everywhere and anywhere suffer equally.
And we’ve kinda’ missed the mark on that, as now culture is instead becoming eclectic. We don’t have pockets of cultures, we are steadily pushing toward having a single culture, a mass of haphazard associations and little comprehension of meaning.
Haven’t read Neuromancer in a while, but didn’t the rich have private satellites?
Facetious question: don’t they own private satellites IRL, too?:))
C’mon.
What’s the point?
Acting like an eight year old and taking words at their literal meaning?
You’re subverting your own thread.
It was a joke…
Edit: sorry, hadn’t had my coffee yet:))
To answer your initial comment, yeah, that’s how I remember it as well (been a while for me, too). And we already have real life analogues for that, in Musk trying to colonise Mars and Bezos proudly launching giant blue dildos into space. In either case, they’re both one step removed from eventually establishing a space station or some such - Musk because it’s easier to deploy a colonisation effort without having to deal with exiting the atmosphere first, and Bezos because… well… he’d actually have to have a reason to keep launching giant blue dildos other than for he hell of it, which fair enough! Very Post-Modern!
Honestly, I’m surprised they aren’t focusing on that. Makes sense to develop a reliable and sustainable means of getting to-and-from, but we kinda’ already have something that’s Good Enough™… In all fairness, I may be overestimating these guys, given their track record so far…