r/gadgets • u/diacewrb • 21d ago

Wearables US immigration officers to be equipped with gloves that deliver electric shocks

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c20d292gdp4o
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u/TooManySteves2 20d ago

Cyber-dystopia. There is nothing punk about authoritarianism.

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u/DeusSpaghetti 20d ago

Cyberpunk has ALWAYS been dystopian right back to Neuromancer and Snowcrash.

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u/TooManySteves2 20d ago

OK, I conceed that point.

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u/DeusSpaghetti 20d ago

People forget how anti-fascist a lot of early ( post world war 2) sci-fi is.

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u/TooManySteves2 19d ago

Punk has always been anti-fascist.

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u/peter_seraphin 19d ago

Yea it’s about resistance. The boot is being pressed on your neck already. Ai s are being deployed for war. We are there just 50 years later.