Cyberpunk
"High tech, low life."
"The street finds its own uses for things."
We all know the quotes and the books. But cyberpunk is more than a neon-soaked, cybernetic aesthetic, or a gritty dystopian science fiction genre. It is a subculture composed of two fundamental ideas: PUNK, and CYBER.
The PUNK: antiauthoritarian, anticapitalist, radical freedom of expression, rejection of tradition, a DIY ethic.
The CYBER: all that, but high-fuckin'-tech, ya feel? From DIYing body mods to using bleeding edge software to subvert corporate interests. It's punk for the 22nd century.
This is a community dedicated to discussing anything cyberpunk, be it books, movies, or other art that falls into the genre, or real life tech, projects, stories, ideas or anything else that adheres to these ideals. It's a place for 'punks from all over the federated Net to hang out and swap stories and meaningful content (not just pictures of city nightscapes).
Welcome in, choom.
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All the way. I've just found someone irl to start putting implants under my skin, and that's already more exciting to me than anything else in my life. I'm not very tied to being made of meat, so as soon as I can legally have my left arm replaced with a robotic prosthetic that functions just as well or better, I will.
Are you talking about https://dangerousthings.com/ ?
I just got my first couple implants a couple months ago now. They're pretty great! My advice though, make you have a plan to actually use them in day-to-day life.
I have one tag as a clone as my fob to get into work, and another tag I use with my smart home stuff. My favorite is a sensor I have hidden behind the siding on my house that opens my garage.
Something I want to do is become a scannable art gallery. I plan to get cybernetic panel tattoos, and I think it would be extremely interesting for each panel's "Access Port", or what have you, to have an NFC implanted under it so it would actually be scannable.
It would take you to a web page featuring vector art of the piece, a high quality photo of the piece, the artist's name, time taken, when it was done, where it was done, etc. I've never seen it done before, but it's also super expensive in both directions, so I'm just gonna try and get it done with what means I can.
Ideally, I would get a design, work out where it's going, talk about having an implant injected into the location, and then work out how to design the scannable area. After the injection site heals, the tattoo would be done.
Also, yes, I'm referring to Dangerous Things.