Cyberpunk Fiction vs Real Life

In cyberpunk fiction: I have created a fully sentient android that is virtually impossible to distinguish from humans This is an atrocity against nature, I will be unflinchingly racist towards it In real life: I have created a wire tap with a voice that can also do some things your phone already could OMG i'm going to treat it like a family member!

A two-panel comparison contrasts cyberpunk stories, where a nearly human android is treated as an abomination, with real life, where people enthusiastically anthropomorphize a smart speaker that only has limited extra functions. The joke mocks the exaggerated moral standards and selective empathy of science fiction compared with real-world reactions to consumer technology. EN: A two-panel comparison contrasts cyberpunk stories, where a nearly human android is treated as an abomination, with real life, where people enthusiastically anthropomorphize a smart speaker that only has limited extra functions. The joke mocks the exaggerated moral standards and selective empathy of science fiction compared with real-world reactions to consumer technology.

• @right_wing_dev_squads / 3719 2022-03-26