Questions tagged [cyberpunk]
For questions based in worlds where human/machine interfaces are highly advanced, where defining "human" has become quite difficult because of the cybernetic upgrades and advance of AI. Focuses on societal issues springing from this strong advance of tech. See also: [singularity] (technological).
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My novel is a futuristic postwar cyberpunk set in a global dust bowl and with a permanent aurora borealis, is that believable? [closed]
For my cyberpunk noir in 2063 thirty years WW3, could there be a new dust bowl and a permanent aurora borealis caused by war and experimental tech??
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In a dystopian cyberpunk setting, what is the incentive of normal people to keep on living? [closed]
There are long list of what's wrong with the common cyberpunk dystopian setting, but let's start with these assumptions:
Cities have been replaced with arcologies - that is a self-sustaining city, as ...
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Reverse Cyberpsychosis [closed]
Niko is a student at the University of Strasbourg with a rather peculiar mental condition, they have an irrational need for cybernetic enhancements, an extreme discontent with their organic body to ...
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Non-Hereditary Citizenship, Guaranteed by Service? [closed]
I'm developing a world where the Middle California Bloc (MCB), an independent, technologically advanced coalition of republics, exists as a meritocratic alternative to the megacorporate rule of ...
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What would a city/arcology designed to survive atomic bombings look like
I'm working on a hard sci-fi Cold War cyberpunk setting where the Cold War had a third faction (transhumanist fascists basically). There is a constant threat of war spreading across multiple planets (...
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What is the most plausible way for a neuralchip to be invented in a post-apocalyptic society?
I'm creating a RPG game set in 2058, after a parallel history scenario where the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis turned hot, and civilization underwent full scale nuclear war.
The game is set in the People'...
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How Could an Organism Evolve "Unintentionally" into a Cyborg?
Let's say there is an ecosystem with lots of familiar organisms. Bacteria, plants, fungi, metazoans.
Then a great deal of high-tech waste is introduced into that ecosystem. First, is there any way ...
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How does the Society of the Technologically Anonymous hide its origins and operations?
In the very near future, we find out about a secret society whose sole purpose is to raise children who have absolutely no online presence. They are moving to a mysterious "phase 2" of their ...
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Why would a landlord in a cyberpunk dystopia deal with a 'SINless' person?
So here is the setup:
The protagonist has escaped an underground slave encampment in a cyberpunk dystopia. Everyone in this world is expected to be registered - the SIN (System Identification Number) ...
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In a cyberpunk world where corporate upper class citizens can work virtually through implants, why would they build corporate mega-skyscrapers?
In my story, the upper class have augmented reality chips in their brains. What would be the point of physically going to work? Why would a corporation have incredible cyberpunk-style mega-skyscrapers ...
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Is a cyberpunk weather planet realistic?
Do you know how (almost) every cyberpunk story happens in a dark rainy night? No matter how long a timeframe the story takes place in, it's always rainy and dark. How realistic is it to have a planet ...
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How realistic would a city of over ten million people in an area of less than 100 square kilometres be?
I have been playing Cyberpunk 2077 on my PS4 and Night City in the game has almost 7 million people and an area of just 75 km2. It is very dense with suspended streets and highways and giant buildings ...
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Cyberpunk Loan Shark
A central component of the cyberpunk genre is the idea of corporations rising to be the dominant power in the world.
I'm working with a setting where urban centers are safe because the corps police ...
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How would a nightclub in a post-apocalyptic future look like? [closed]
I am studying theatre directing. It’s a thing of beauty to build a world for a set design.
So: I’ve written a text that will be played by actors. It’s about a computer programmer who meets and falls ...
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How would a cyberpunk superhero do interrogations?
If you watch superhero movies and storyboard the plot points, one of the main activities superheroes engage in (apart from fighting and showing-up-in-the-nick-of-time) is interrogation, like Batman ...
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