Elon Musk Doesn't Understand Cyberpunk | 2025 and Sci-Fi

The cyberpunk genre is a long, time-honored genre. Since the early 80s, we've explored sci-fi visions of the future, with low-life and high-tech, with hackers and governments run by rich, unregulated countries: capitalism gone wild. So, naturally, Elon Musk saw that and went "I wanna do that, but for real!" By comparing Musk's recent technological developments to cyberpunk's greatest stories -- from William Gibson's Neuromancer to Blade Runner to Ghost in the Shell to Robocop, we start to get a sense that Musk might not actually understand the sci-fi he's lifting from. Credit to ‪@RedBardIsCool‬ for reading the quote at the end! 0:00 The Origin Point of Cyberpunk 2:54 Neuromancer and William Gibson 9:29 Bringing Science Fiction to Life is Dangerous 13:29 Elon Musk is Making Us Roleplay his Sci-Fi Fantasies 19:17 Cyberpunk is Not an Optimistic Future 22:13 How Cyberpunk is Misunderstood 26:13 Cyberpunk and Control 30:03 Cyberpunk and Memory 34:48 Cyberspace and Liberation 37:15 Do You Remember Metaverse? 38:29 The Painful Social Satire of Cyberpunk (and the Businesses That Don’t Get It) 41:39 I am losing my mind over Elon Musk 45:57 I’m Tired of People Obsessing Over Cyber and Missing the Punk 51:17 The Matrix, Trouble and her Friends, and Human Identity in Cyberpunk 56:03 Cyberpunk, Cops, and Transcendence 58:59 Cyberpunk, Body Modification, and Gender 1:01:06 The World is Going Backwards, So We Must Push Forward https://blog.vingapp.com/food-deliver...