Cyberpunk
- An out-of-warranty battery almost left this paralyzed man’s exoskeleton uselesswww.theverge.com An out-of-warranty battery almost left this paralyzed man’s exoskeleton useless
He couldn’t walk using the machine for two months.
cross-posted from: https://feddit.it/post/11211952
> Alternative link where I'm told the story is written better, but unfortunately has a signup wall and I'm not willing to sign up https://www.404media.co/paralyzed-jockey-loses-ability-to-walk-after-manufacturer-refuses-to-fix-battery-for-his-100-000-exoskeleton/
- [Podcast] High Tech Low Life Podcast: a cyberpunk media retrospective
If you like podcasts and cyberpunk then I think the HTLL podcast is pretty enjoyable. It's just two guys re-watching/re-reading various cyberpunk works and then cracking open some beers and discussing it. They aren't experts and don't provide any real new insight, they just talk about what they liked and didn't like. Also, they'll recap the plot as part of their discussion so you don't need to have seen/read the works recently.
As someone who doesn't have anyone in real life that cares about cyberpunk, it's nice listening to a couple friends just informally chatting about the genre. And as far as a cyberpunk podcast goes, I'm not sure what else I'd want. Plus, it's fun listening to them trying to make sense of the plot of various terrible cyberpunk movies from the 90s.
You can listen to it anywhere that hosts podcasts, but I'm linking to their linktree here as a simple starting point.
- New Animated Cyberpunk Project Coming to Netflixgameranx.com New Animated Cyberpunk Project Coming to Netflix - Gameranx
A new animated Cyberpunk project has been announced for Netflix, and fans are already eager to return to Night City.
> A new animated Cyberpunk project has been announced for Netflix, and fans are already eager to return to Night City.
- The last rural cyberpunk comic still (for now, I'm hoping to make more)
I used to walk past abandoned trucks out in the woods, so I wanted to capture something of that.
The M9 Armored Combat Earthmover looks super cyberpunk to me, probably because it dates back to the 1980s, still in use. My inner Gibson fan wanted to include some kind of rusting, surplus military equipment in this rural cyberpunk comic, possibly a hovercraft. But I figure this fits the superfund site backstory nicely, since it’s supposedly rated for protection against chemical and biological agents.
Also, like most military vehicles, the M9 has a cult fan following, making it pretty easy to find photos from a variety of angles, along with photos of model kits, which in this format are just as good.
I have a (headcannon-only, at the moment) idea that these machines were upgraded a third time to house AI pilots on a similar level, perhaps a bit smarter, than the bodyguard. And that they might have been left with the chassis when the work was paused, then delayed and delayed, until they finally gave up on remediating the site. One possible resolution for the story might involve the bodyguard making friends with one, who is able to contact a human tech (a former site volunteer) who lives nearby and maintains the abandoned AIs as best he can. He might end up serving as a mediator between the robot and the outside world.
You probably shouldn't tap the trees in a superfund site for sap, but that feels like a fairly cyberpunk sort of resignation/indifference to circumstances. I know some folks who do sapping IRL and they say animals often try to get into it – cows in particular are very clever with disconnecting hoses and such to get access to the delicious sugar water. They didn’t have any stories about deer but I bet it’s happened.
I've almost run through the backlog of art for this silly rural cyberpunk webcomic. I'm hoping to make a few more, but the schedule might get a little unreliable for a bit after page 25. If want to read the rest of it you can find it here: https://jacobcoffinwrites.wordpress.com/president-deer-adventures/
If you’d like to read the related-but-mutually-non-canonical short story version, you can find it here: https://en.scrappycapydistro.info/harbour it’s in the first edition, on page 3!
- GRAFT - Announcement trailer (post-cyberpunk game from the makers of the Shadowrun Returns games)
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> Transform yourself through grafting as you escape a vast, dying space station in this thrilling post-cyberpunk survival horror RPG from the makers of BATTLETECH and the Shadowrun Trilogy.
When I saw this game was being made by Harebrained, I knew I recognized the name and the gameplay made me think this was the group that made RUINER. But no, this is the group that made Shadowrun Returns, Shadowrun: Dragonfall, and Shadowrun: Hong Kong. So they have a history of making cyberpunk games and they refer to this one as "post-cyberpunk". It could be interesting.
- Altered Alma - Official Kickstarter Trailer (cyberpunk metroidvania)
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Altered Alma is a cyberpunk metroidvania. The kickstarter is currently active but it's already funded at 250%. Anyway, the reason I wanted to mention it is because there's a demo available on Steam and I think it's really fun (and very cyberpunk). If you're a fan of metroidvanias, I think it's got great movement, great combat, and great sprite work. And with it also being cyberpunk, I'm very interested.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2awesomestudio/altered-alma
- Cyberpunk 2077: The Board Game trailer
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It seems ridiculous to me to make a board game based on a video game based on a TTRPG... but this is really just a kickstarter (er, gamefound) so it isn't real just yet. The funding goal was hit within 10 min and has already made over a million dollars though, so I guess it'll be real soon enough...
https://gamefound.com/en/projects/go-on-board/cyberpunk-2077-the-board-game
- [Music] updated Darksynth recommendation guide
A couple months ago, I shamelessly posted a darksynth recommendation guide someone on reddit made and a lot of people here on Lemmy seemed to like it. Well, the creator of that guide just posted a new version so I'm shamelessly sharing it here again.
You can see the full-sized, zoomable version here. Once again, this was created by khroshan over on reddit, not by me.
- [Book] Jack: Into the Beanstalk - not as bad as the title would suggest
Let me get this out of the way first: this is a mindless pulp cyberpunk novel. It isn't high art. But it also isn't as bad as I would expect a book titled "Jack: Into the Beanstalk" to be. This isn't a bland re-telling of Jack And The Beanstalk with some human augmentations slapped on top. It's primarily a cyberpunk world first and any references to the fairy tale feel more like easter eggs than core story elements. So in that way, I was pleasantly surprised. With that said, this post is more about me trying to keep this community alive than a strong recommendation. It's a fun mindless story, not a "must read".
Both Astro Boy and Battle Angel Alita have the concept of a rich city in the clouds above the poor working class living on the ground. Even the Deus Ex reboot had Hengsha as a city on top of another city. So when this book has a rich city being held up above the poor city, I see that more as a cyberpunk trope than a "castle in the clouds" from the fairy tale. But maybe I'm being too generous. Anyway, the story is about a girl (named Jack) who has cybernetic limbs. She has a neurological implant in her spine which helps control these limbs. At the beginning of the story, she's doing odd jobs for a gang in the hopes of paying off the debt she incurred when purchasing the limbs. The implant in her spine gets damaged and suddenly she can see a glowing green line reaching from the ground to the rich city above. That green line is The Beanstalk. Her goal is to figure out why only she can see it and what exactly it is. No magic beans, no giants in the sky, nothing else that I would consider a reference to the fairy tale.
In the process of trying to figure out what The Beanstalk is, she joins up with a group of freedom fighters. And this is really my main complaint with the story. This may be a nuance of the cyberpunk genre that only I care about, but I don't think cyberpunk stories should have rebellions. I'm good with a group of mercenaries teaming up to take down a megacorp, but I don't want a group of rebels attempting to make systemic change. I think an aspect of the cyberpunk genre is in trying to find your place in the world, not trying to change it. But that really is just a nitpick regarding my own enjoyment of the story; and if that's the worst I can come up with, it's not bad. The characters all have distinct personalities, the world is fleshed-out, the story is good; it's a fun romp.
There are two books in the series so far and both are less than 300 pages. Both end on a cliffhanger though. I jumped right into book 2 to see the resolution of the first book's cliffhanger and now I'm left with another cliffhanger waiting for book 3. Also, I'm not a huge fan of where the story went in book 2. It's introducing too much "magic" for my taste. The book pretends it's based on quantum computing but as far as the world-building is concerned, it's magic. There's a lot of "oh, I guess she can do that now" in the second book. And while you might argue it's stupid for me to complain about magic in a re-telling of a fairy tale, it really has not felt like a fantasy or fairy tale at any other point in the story so it's pretty jarring to me.
So as I said before, overall, a fun pulp cyberpunk novel but mostly me showing this community is still active.
- [Video] Armani Showers (with vocals)
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Yes. The 1990s demoscene song by Edge (Kalle Kaivola) of the demogroup EMF (Electromotive Force). The file was bundled with Future Crew's Scream Tracker 3 software, one of the most influential music software packages of the era.
A lot of demoscene songs just lend themselves perfectly to cyberpunk vibes, you know?
- How to connect to DarkIRC, OG cyberpunk chatnews.dyne.org How to connect to DarkIRC
Connect to DarkIRC: Secure, Anonymous Chat. Learn how to set up DarkIRC, the decentralized chat application from DarkFI, ensuring your communications remain private and secure. Follow our step-by-step guide to unlock the power of anonymity.
- [Music] CyberPriest - Shadow Tower (2024)
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- DEFECT | Official Reveal Trailer
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> Defect is a cyberpunk, squad-based, Immersive Shooter set in the last city of mankind, where THE SYSTEM, an authoritarian AI, rules with inhuman logic. Choose from a collection of dangerous factions—The System’s own policing force, Rogue Police Elements, or a host of gangs vying for power—play with friends in PvP or co-op. Compete to achieve objectives like smuggling guns, assassinating targets, or arresting suspects. Suit up with state-of-the-art weaponry and technology to give you the edge you need to live another day.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2470010/DEFECT/
(I promise I'm not trying to constantly post video game trailers. I try to post whatever cyberpunk media news I come across and there just happens to be more cyberpunk video games in development than any other media.)
- Another rural cyberpunk still from that comic I'm working on.
This was another of those still images, where I wanted to capture a specific kind of place, the old farmhouses you find all throughout my hometowns, and a specific time of day in November when the sun has set and everything is this almost monochrome purple but the grass and crops look almost tan. In a few months, on cold grey days like this, when there’s a layer of snow on the ground, it almost mirrors the sky with just dark trees between them. But for now it’s this very specific color.
I used to go for walks or snowshoe trips most afternoons, and would often find myself hurrying to get back as night settled in. On those early evenings, I loved the yellow lights in the distance, the warmth and human routine they contained.
I wanted the farm in the comic to be a little more active than some of the ones back home. I did a fair bit of reading about agriculture UAVs and autonomous tractors, and I very much liked the used-future feel of the brand new stuff from those articles being kind of old and hacked-together at this point. Something these folks bought second- or third-hand, probably after it was already hacked by a previous owner to remove the manufacturer’s ability to remotely disable it. I like the idea that they have a sort of workshop/hangar for launching drones and inspecting their crops set up in the loft of the barn.
The standing figure is based a bit on my grandfather.
If want to read the rest of this silly rural cyberpunk webcomic about a stolen secret service prototype and the endangered deer it thinks is the president, you can find it here: https://jacobcoffinwrites.wordpress.com/president-deer-adventures/
If you’d like to read the related-but-mutually-non-canonical short story version, you can find it here: https://en.scrappycapydistro.info/harbour it’s in the first edition, on page 3!
- Neo Berlin 2087 - Official Gameplay Trailer
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> Neo Berlin 2087, a third and first-person action RPG developed by Elysium Game Studio. Players will engage with a deep cinematic detective thriller set in a dark future vision of Berlin. Get to the bottom of a conspiracy in a dystopian cyberpunk reality with the latest trailer showcasing new and re-designed characters, gameplay, levels, and cutscenes. Neo Berlin 2087 is coming soon to PlayStation 5 (PS5), Xbox Series X|S, and PC (Steam and Epic Games Store).
- Kiborg: Arena Is a Brutal Cyberpunk Beat-’Em-up with a Roguelite Twist
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- [Full Series] ROBOCOP 1988 animated cartoon
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Baby's first cyberpunk:
> The show made a number of changes to the RoboCop universe to make it more appropriate for younger viewers, including replacing bullets with laser weapons and shifting the series to a more science fiction setting. In this series, RoboCop had a red light in the middle of his visor (which occasionally panned the whole visor). It is set in an alternate continuity where events similar to those shown in the movie happened ... > > Based on the original movie, the series features cyborg cop Alex Murphy (RoboCop), who fights to save the city of Old Detroit from assorted rogue elements, and on occasion, fighting to reclaim aspects of his humanity and maintain his usefulness in the eyes of the "Old Man", Chairman of Omni Consumer Products. Many episodes see RoboCop's reputation put to the test or soured by interventions from Dr. McNamara, the creator of ED-260, the upgradable version of the Enforcement Droid Series 209 and the top competitor for the financial backing of OCP. He continually develops other mechanical menaces that threaten RoboCop.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RoboCop_(animated_TV_series)
Not sure how to feel about this -- it's got near-future tech, low-lifes, and corporate scheming. But the animation is 80s-era quality and the plots are generally pretty simple. It's ok background noise and historically interesting, I guess.
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRkbDWUF0vI - all 12 episodes, I haven't watched it all the way through though
- https://redirect.invidious.io/watch?v=qRkbDWUF0vI - find an invidious instance
- Demon Lord 2099 | OFFICIAL TRAILER
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The cyberpunk metropolis Shinjuku—a massive city-state bedecked with neon signs, towering skyscrapers, and the latest cutting-edge technology. It is here, in year 2099 of the Fused Era, where the legendary Demon Lord Veltol has his second coming five centuries in the making. But this landscape is nothing like the one he conquered all those years ago, for the fusion of magic and engineering has elevated civilization to dazzling, unprecedented heights. Veltol may have been reduced to a historical footnote, but make no mistake…this brave new world will be his for the taking!
- Nobody Wants to Die | Launch Trailer (out now)
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This game looks similar to Observer as a first-person game with no combat about a detective trying to solve a case in a cyberpunk world. At least, that's my understanding from the trailers.
Available on Steam, Playstation, Xbox.
- TERMINATOR ZERO | Official Teaser Trailer (new Netflix anime from studio that made Ghost in the Shell)
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- [Movie Clip] GHOST IN THE SHELL 2: INNOCENCE - temple parade scene
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This is actually a slight fan edit of the parade scene, to emphasize the soundtrack.
- Here's another take on this scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtxRCwZH-OA
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_in_the_Shell_2:_Innocence
- [Full Movie] FUTURE SOLDIER (2023) - low-budget film
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Originally posted on !fullmoviesonyoutube@lemm.ee. Sounds pretty cyberpunk. WARNING: I haven't watched this, and it's got a 3.8 out of 10 on IMDB.
- try an invidious interface: https://invidious.privacydev.net/watch?v=6KSfaZGb0ic
- https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10334636/
original text from !fullmoviesonyoutube@lemm.ee: > In a dystopian future, a bounty hunter and an ex-cop find themselves on a collision course with a crime lord and a militarized security force. Caught in a dangerous web, they're pitted against shadowy forces, cloned troopers and masked assassins. > > https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/future_soldier >
- [Anime Music Video] LAZERHAWK - HYPNIC (scenes from "Cyber City Oedo 808")
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- Invidious: https://invidious.private.coffee/watch?v=ReUmeJ4Kx2g
- Bandcamp: https://lazerhawk.bandcamp.com/track/hypnic
- anime info https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyber_City_Oedo_808
- replacing memories
An open question, related to cyberpunk culture.
Considering the possibilities of current social-engineering as used by social media and desinformation, to what degree ido you think it is now possible to 'implant' fake memories into somebody's consciousness, without that person noticing it.
- Another still panel from a little rural cyberpunk webcomic I've been working on
Awhile back I posted that one of my cyberpunk short stories got picked up by an anarchist fiction zine. I was excited because I had this related-but-sort-of-mutually-non-canonical photobash comic ready to go, about a stolen secret service protoptype and the endangered deer it thinks is the president. I don’t want to spam this community with my weekly updates, so I figured I’d just share the still panels, spaced out whenever I get to them in the posting schedule. They’re just quiet bits of art between the jokes.
There are a bunch of spots like this around my home towns. Not necessarily a business, not a house, just some kind of sandpit with an old workshop or metal building and some old vehicles in it. Probably if I really dug in to county records I’d find a registered business, likely defunct, in a local family name. Perhaps several. But usually they’re pretty quiet spots, at least until someone new buys them. I’d wanted to do the cyberpunk version of one of those.
(I’d like to extend a huge thanks to the ham radio community over on reddit, who were great sports about looking over an early draft of the building and the antennas, and who helped me with scale and even which antennas to include. The only one that came up as a possible issue was the discone on the back, and there was some debate on whether to scale it down to make it more ‘as expected’ or to leave it as an unusually large one, until someone settled it by mentioning that their mentor had had one about this size, which came from the Swedish military. I’m making a rural cyberpunk webcomic, so I will 100% include European military surplus equipment in the backgrounds if I get that opportunity.)
- [Full Movie] eXistenZ (1999)archive.org eXistenZ 1999 1080p Bluray DTS x264 NTb : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
eXistenZ 1999 1080p Bluray DTS x264 NTb
Cross-posted from !fullmoviesonyoutube@lemm.ee. Yeah I know it's on archive.org not youtube, but that's OK according to the mod over there.
Whether or not eXistenZ is cyberpunk or not was previously discussed here.
notes from the original post: > Existenz (stylized as eXistenZ) is a 1999 science fiction horror film written, produced and directed by David Cronenberg. The film follows Allegra Geller (Jennifer Jason Leigh), a game designer who finds herself targeted by assassins while playing a virtual reality game of her own creation. > > An international co-production between Canada, the United Kingdom, and France, it also stars Jude Law, Ian Holm, Don McKellar, Callum Keith Rennie, Sarah Polley, Christopher Eccleston, Willem Dafoe, and Robert A. Silverman. > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Existenz >
- The Watch Dogs Movie Is Actually Happening, Over A Decade After It Was Announcedkotaku.com The Watch Dogs Movie Is Actually Happening, Over A Decade After It Was Announced
Ubisoft first shared its plans for a movie based on the open-world series back in 2013
I've mentioned this before, but I'm a fan of the Watch_Dogs series. And I can't believe they're actually making a movie for it. I have no doubt this movie will be terrible but that won't stop me from seeing it in the theater. Can't wait!
- BLADE RUNNER 2099 Adds Nine New Actors to The Cast — GeekTyrantgeektyrant.com BLADE RUNNER 2099 Adds Nine New Actors to The Cast — GeekTyrant
Nine new actors have joined Michelle Yeoh ( Star Trek: Discovery ) and Hunter Schafer ( Euphoria ) in Prime Video’s upcoming sci-fi noir series Blade Runner 2099. The new cast members include Dimitri Abold ( The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes ) and Lewis Gribben (
- [Anime Music Video] BATTLE ANGEL ALITA scenes set to The Neon Droid - Control
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I posted this song earlier, but that was before I found this killer cyberpunk AMV made from Battle Angel Alita. (i.e. the anime that served as the source for the "Alita: Battle Angel" movie)
- Invidious version: https://invidious.materialio.us/watch?v=jlmTZap0q0Y
- bandcamp: https://neondroid.bandcamp.com/track/control-2
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_Angel_Alita
- We’re living in a cyberpunk dystopia – as predicted by the greatest sci-fi novel of all
From biohackers to ghostbots, William Gibson’s Neuromancer saw the future 40 years ago – why has Silicon Valley defied its warnings?
Article: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/authors/neuromancer-william-gibson-sci-fi-novels/
- [Anime Music Video] Isidor - Children of Cyberpunk
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- watch an invidious version: https://redirect.invidious.io/watch?v=atV9Rbpfhbc
- Bandcamp: https://newretrowave.bandcamp.com/track/children-of-cyberpunk
- the anime used: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyber_City_Oedo_808
- Cyber City Oedo 808 was previously discussed here: https://lemmy.world/post/11735409 apparently it's available free on youtube
- [Movie] Cyber Bandits (1995)
Released in 1995 (the same year as Hackers and The Net!) and I've never heard of this movie. I think it was direct-to-video though, and there are plenty of terrible direct-to-video movies from that time.
Here's a description of the movie from someone's review on imdb: > An evil billionaire develops a weapon that will entrap its victims in a catatonic state of virtual reality. His girlfriend steals the disk (back when DVD discs were considered a big deal) that creates the software for the weapon and amazingly, it's the only copy. She makes friends with a sailor who helps her escape, and they put the software in a tattoo on his back.
Here's a trailer. If you think you can stomach it, the entire movie has been posted to youtube. For what it's worth, one of the reviews says there's a lot of nudity in the movie but I guess it isn't enough to trigger youtube's algorithm for removal. I think it's a little too low-budget even for my tastes so I haven't tried watching but maybe someone here might be interested.
- Bujji & Bhairava - prelude to Kalki 2898 AD (Indian Cyberpunk?)
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I happened to stumble upon this today and wanted to talk about it. Bujji & Bhairava is an animated 2-episode mini-series (15 minutes each) prelude to one of the most expensive Indian movies ever made, Kalki 2898 AD.
Now, as far as I can tell from the trailer, Kalki 2898 AD doesn't actually look cyberpunk to me. It looks more like Stargate or Gods of Egypt, where "the gods" have glowy futuristic technology but the humans are just living regular (non-scifi) lives. Yet this 2-episode animated prelude absolutely takes place in an Indian version of a cyberpunk city. The main character is a high-tech low-life bounty hunter who finds an android head and installs into a car to help him capture bounties. He's trying to make enough money so he can enter The Complex. Although I can't tell if The Complex is where all the rich people live (which would be even more cyberpunk) or if it's where "the gods" live (which I'd call less cyberpunk).
Anyway, these two 15-minute episodes are available on Amazon Prime. And the movie they're leading up to, Kalki 2898 AD, releases on June 27.
- Tears of Steel
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I'm genuinely sorry about posting shit a week ago. I was drunk. ...I'm less drunk now. This is genuinely awesome, however.
- new Nivalis trailer (game set in the same world as Cloudpunk)
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- [Movie Clip] MINORITY REPORT (2002) - spider robots scene
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Anderton is recovering from an illegal surgery, when the police come searching for him! But did his new retinas have enough time to heal?
> After E.T., Spielberg started to consult experts, and put more scientific research into his science fiction films.[36] In 1999, he invited fifteen experts convened by Peter Schwartz and Stewart Brand to a hotel in Santa Monica for a three-day "think tank". He wanted to consult with the group to create a plausible "future reality" for the year 2054 as opposed to a more traditional "science fiction" setting.[37] Dubbed the "think tank summit",[38] the experts included architect Peter Calthorpe, author Douglas Coupland, urbanist and journalist Joel Garreau, computer scientist Neil Gershenfeld, biomedical researcher Shaun Jones, computer scientist Jaron Lanier, and former Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) architecture dean William J. Mitchell.[37][39] Production designer Alex McDowell kept what was nicknamed the "2054 bible", an 80-page guide created in preproduction which listed all the aspects of the future world: architectural, socio-economic, political, and technological.[38] While the discussions did not change key elements in the film, they were influential in the creation of some of the more utopian aspects, though John Underkoffler, the science and technology advisor for the film, described it as "much grayer and more ambiguous" than what was envisioned in 1999.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minority_Report_(film)
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- [Full Movie] THE FIFTH ELEMENT (1997)
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I was looking through the top posts of !fullmoviesonyoutube@lemm.ee and noticed The Fifth Element had been posted last year, and was still up!
- Invidious Link: https://invidious.flokinet.to/watch?v=GroVSNjVybs
- An earlier discussion here on whether or not The Fifth Element is cyberpunk: https://lemmy.world/post/14250995
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fifth_Element