/cyber/ - Cyberpunk & Science Fiction

>>29563

Well I sucked at math and still do, so there goes STEM fields.

I was homeschooled by religiontards for three years, sabotaging my education and social skills. Dedicating to much of 'anything' back in my day would have been impossible. I will never get those years of my life back.

Not much I can contribute to the planet nowadays, and I imagine others share the same situation.

Cyberpunk is not a fantasy, anyway. It is the sad realization of what we are coming to, and keeping the world away from such a setting is what we should be fighting for.

Do you want to be forced into learning /cyber/ shit to survive in a corporate controlled world? No. But we have to. Because we're already there, even if there are no neon lights everywhere to compliment the stereotype.

>The Future Is Now: Where's My Flying Car?

free-market neoliberal capitalism can't science. it can guns and cosmetics and reality tv.

we can't invent groundbreaking technology when an increasing number of people is doing the modern equivalent of building pyramids - retard jobs to keep them occupied and tired during times of unemployment.

during a time where 100 acre farms are farmed by one full-time and one half-time employee we must face the realization that physical labour is mostly a waste of time and we should concentrate on automating the rest so people can relax and invent or produce art to inspire the inventors.

who cares if you started programming at age 3, 13 or at age 23 if for the rest of your life economic circumstances force you to write proprietary malware?

here's an idea:

http://www.newstatesman.com/economics/2013/06/basic-income-versus-robots

finland and utricht are testing it:

http://motherboard.[please use archive.today]/de/read/finnland-hat-die-einfhrung-des-bedingungslosen-grundeinkommens-beschlossen-222

destadutrecht.nl/politiek/utrecht-start-experiment-met-basisinkomen/

switzerland will vote on it in 2016:

http://bedingungslos.ch/

Yeah I'm kicking myself for not learning to program earlier when I was a neet stalker addict. Could've learned OO from Lua. There weren't any classes to take in the shithole where I lived but if I had been motivated I wouldn't have had to be forced along.

24 now.

I'm heading into machine learning, and am working through my CSE degree now. Fuck waiting. I'm going to help make this AI shit happen, but I'm still undoing the damage from being a neet shitbag for so long

Robots are terribly complex things. Complaining about their cost is like complaining about the cost of a car.

AI is nice in scifi, but infinitely harder to get a handle on IRL.

At least we're getting things like self-driving cars.

>>29571

>>29571

>free-market neoliberal capitalism

kek.

and communism or any other pant-on-head retarded system can?

>>29718

did you even read the post moron?

>>29718

I'm not sure what system will come next but capitalism is rotting and that's plain to see.

>>29718

Everyone point at the stormfag and laugh

>>29563

Same bs in biotech too

>just started reprogramming cells

>tissue engg primitive as fuck

>genetic engineering on humans b&ed

>anti-virals extremely limited

Space too

>still no single stage vehicle

>no space elevator

>commercial space disasters galore

>NASA in shambles for years

All those STEM dreams were lies. Society is clearly more interested in getting even proportions of genitals and skin tones into science than actually developing science.

It's truly a shittastic time to be alive.

Software is easy to iterate, compared to robots where you have to re-solder shit, or how ever robots work.

We have the means for sufficiently advanced robotics.

Suits just like to keep it all hush-hush. It's a big leap in science. One the populace is not ready for or whatever their reasons are.

>>33628

>tfw I had to move out of my city for UNI

>tfw far less /cyber/

>>29571

>during a time where 100 acre farms are farmed by one full-time and one half-time employee

Thanks to free market capitalism. However there is still plenty of manual labor that needs doing. As people have more brouzouf to spend they will need to employ more people to make new things. Humans are much quicker to adapt to doing a job than a machine.

Innovation continues of course and many jobs will continue to go obsolete as more efficient ways are found.

Basic income is probably a good idea anyway, but the only reason it's possible is because capitalism is so successful.

>>29769

>if you're not a communist you're from stormfront

kill yourself retard.

>>29777

Fucking this

>>33629

mechanically sure, but robotics has been a software issue since the 50's