I wouldn't say "hoping for" but which cyberpunk dystopia do you think is most likely to happen (of any franchise)?

Repo the Genetic opera with Cyberpunk and probably a little Blade Runner later on.

A mix of Her, Gattaca, Mad Max, Idiocracy, 1984, Ready Player One, Waterworld.

Is our current dystopia not good enough?
- “We have dystopia at home”

Snow Crash seems to be a favorite of the current heads of mega tech corporations.
- -Federal government still technically exists but has barely any ability to do anything -Everything privatized including police and emergency services -Wealthy live in gated communities while most of the population lives in corporate owned slums -Leader of a megachurch is trying to take over the world
  Yeah, this one really seems like we are heading in that direction.
- I gave up reading it because of the chase scenes early on. Was expecting it to be more heavy on philosophical concepts.
  But I prefer Art house movies to Hollywood (except for Matrix which managed to combine action with philosophy).

Cyberpunk? Deus Ex, just the first game. The sequels have the depth of a puddle.
Or if climate apocalypse then something like Mad Max, but way dumber perhaps.
That'll do.
- "This plague...the rioting is intensifying to the point where we may not be able to contain it."
  "Why contain it? Let it spill over the schools and churches, let the bodies pile up in the streets. In the end they'll beg us to save them."
  "You misunderstand. They're rioting because we're trying to save them with vaccines. They don't think they need to be saved."
  "God, people are so fucking stupid. Why do I even want to take over the world?"
  
  Yeah we were too optimistic in our dystopia fiction.
  Idiocracy lacks the malice and bad faith.

It's not much of a dystopia, and it certainly doesn't seem to end that way, but the animated movie Robots just keeps feeling more and more relevant.

Elysium
Instead of a space station, the ultra rich will live in a giant gated city that has all the world's latest technologies and medical services.
The rest of us will work menial jobs to supply everything for the city.
- I replied elsewhere but, yes, that's what they want. Peter Thiel is a proponent of the Network State and absolutely is working towards that end.
- That movie was contemporary geopolitical commentary using a sci-fi metaphor. Same as District 9 (a refugee crisis). So you could argue that future is now, depending on your views.
  
  Science fiction is usually about present issues. It puts them in a different context to offer a different perspective and enable consideration.
- Akira Battle Angel? But, before the war or without the warrior women.
  
  Alita
  Although an Akira crossover with Alita could be fun.
  
  The other one I was thinking of was Hunger Games .... 12 different regions governed over by one powerful region that controls everyone else with military power using all the latest most deadly and most invasive technologies humanity can imagine.
- Elysium
  We can't get to Elysium, because we defunded all our health care R&D

most likely? not the xenomorph part of Alien, specifically, but the general message of unchecked corporate greed leading to disaster for everyone is an all-timer.
- Weyland-Yutani has entered the chat

Wall-E, except no spaceship

1984, but with Idiocracy.

Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said, or A Scanner Darkly. Definitely something by Dick.

Robocop one is rather close.

Is ‘Brazil’ in contention?
- That's closest to the expected Idiocracy in cyberpunk aesthetic.
  
  Whoever thought that we'd look at idiocracy and think "well, it's optimistic because they put the smart person in charge of real policy"
- Oof. The Ministry of Information would like to interview you about your involvement in this "buttle" affair.
- Or 'THX 1138'

I think Blade Runner 2049 is our most likely future from a food systems/decimated eco system perspective. Androids and flying cars, yeah, maybe. No natural vegetation and only the only crops being produced in greenhouses. Probably not by 2049, but I could easily see it by 2149.

I was hoping for Shadowrun, at least there'd be magic, elves, orcs and trolls around

Side note: I really liked Her. Great music, relatable story (for terminally online folk at least). If you haven’t seen it, I’d recommend.
- "ChatGPT has released a new voice assistant feature inspired by Scarlett Johansson’s AI character in ‘Her,’ which I’ve never bothered to watch because
  
  "
  Colin 'Scarlett Johansson's husband' Jost.
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPH0HgotIE4
- Karen O is a treasure.

"Her" except the main character is an incel with a AI waifu that is drastically too young looking of a model
- "She's akchually a thousand years old, kind sir"
- also the apartment they live in is a basement

Deus Ex 1's dystopia probably - ultra wealthy trying to ascend humanity with the help of technology, the powers that be imposing morality and good/bad guy values onto general populace, heavy indoctrination of state/international police and general high levels of poverty. All we're missing are cool augmentations, but we've speedran the rest of the checklist pretty well

Nothing that relies on AI that can pass for a competent human.
Admittedly, this is an ignorant guess, but I don’t think we’re on the right track to manufacture consciousness. I’m not even sure it can be done at all.

William Gibson's writing after the Sprawl trilogy always seemed very likely to happen. I mean, squatters living on the Bay Bridge in NorCal after it gets damaged in an earthquake, for instance. Not the really out there stuff.
- That was always one of my favorites, and it seemed so likely. Now, however, I realize that it was horribly overimpressed with corporations, like most 80s stuff was. We know innovation isn't something megacorps do anymore.
  The one I wished for was more of a Shadow Run future, and my native friends and I used to joke about it.
- Yes, absolutely. His most recent books, the peripheral and agency, have a very plausible outcome—ultra rich living supported by automation after 60-80% of the less fortunate perish over 30 Years in a series of rolling catastrophes they affectionately refer to as “the great jackpot”.
  
  I'm almost done watching Season 1 of The Peripheral tv show now. Its really good.

1984 and brave new world simultaneously
- This is what I tell everyone, we're on a path where both of these novels are true, at one point will there be a split of one or the other. I think it'll end up closer to 1984.
  Or Judge Dredd, Demolition Man
  I actually think that Hollywood is putting out these movies to get everyone used to the behaviour. Well not actually but maybe it's sort of somewhat possible.

The Road.

The classic of course.
We're allready half way there. Neuromancer.
- My company poached a bunch of people from a competitor. And I'm hoping to parlay my US job into a transfer to the EU to get citizenship. Meanwhile my company is building arguably the most complex system ever made by humans. No one employee knows enough about it to say how it works. All we know is that big corporations pay big money for it. And if a system is capable of becoming self aware, it will happen in one of our facilities as no one else has systems as big and fast as ours.
  Yes, I work in AI.
  
  Let me guess, you’re building Skynet. Just remember not to give it any minigun robots, nuclear missiles and robot factories.

Children of Men is happening
- imo i think this was one of the most prescient

Samantha Morton was the original voice for the AI (which I'm guessing would have been an amazing improvement), but was replaced by Scarlett after everything was recorded. Some BS about appealing to the American audience, but I think it was more about a cash bung and BJ.
Upgrade is perhaps an interesting cyberpunk dystopia given current events.

Most likely? That's a tough one. I would guess "V for Vendetta".
What would I prefer? Foundation. At least then we're multi-planetary.
- Psychohistory is a ridiculous concept.
  
  There's so many ridiculous concepts in that awful series, but they did ask for dystopia :D

Mad Max once climate change really gets cooking.
- Except we'll be running around like cave people with spears made of iron or copper pipe .... we might get imaginative and use bicycles or giant kites or wind surfing.
  Horses might exist but they'll be too expensive to maintain and will only be available in certain regions where expertise can survive alongside the farming resources to maintain these animals
  It might look like Mad Max for about 10 years maybe 20 but not beyond that.
  Motorized vehicles won't be possible after 20/30 years because all fuel supplies will disappear, any stored fuel will break down and be unusable or contaminated and there will be no more manufacturing of new fuels. And if there are places producing new liquid fuels, they won't be able to supply anyone beyond 100 km of the manufacturing center. Wars will be fought for the fuel centers and chances are they will be destroyed in the fighting.

bloomer: The Ministry for the Future
doomer: Mad Max

Robocop. We are almost there.... Except Robocop isnt going to be a good guy, and there will be many of them.

What's the movie on the left?
- Blade Runner, a cyberpunk classic.

The limbo from the movie “wristcutters”

Would Don't Look Up count as a soft cyberpunk future (since some of its tech is above what we have)? The social part of it in all aspects feels right on track. Substitute the comet for any number of things.