San Francisco is sailing by outside the train's walls, and the woman next to me is explaining about Mexico City. How from the air it just goes on in all directions, with no end by the horizon. How the trains are packed full, and men wearing backpacks with speakers in all directions will board, blast the train with a quick snatch of music, try to sell a CD, then head to the next car. I think this is what we expected from our cyberpunk future, only in Japanese.
I've been buying up boxes of Netrunner on eBay, a cyberpunk game that died in '99, to share amongst my friends. The cards are littered slang from 2020, a future where millions logged onto The Net every day. Where a deranged AI could crash the stock market. Where the 'eurobuck' was stronger than the dollar, and governments took their marching orders from corporations.
Funny how that future never happened.
I've been buying up boxes of Netrunner on eBay, a cyberpunk game that died in '99, to share amongst my friends. The cards are littered slang from 2020, a future where millions logged onto The Net every day. Where a deranged AI could crash the stock market. Where the 'eurobuck' was stronger than the dollar, and governments took their marching orders from corporations.
Funny how that future never happened.
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But I like the way that "is" sounds. Cuz I'm so proper n stuff.