Timeline for In a cyberpunk world where corporate upper class citizens can work virtually through implants, why would they build corporate mega-skyscrapers?
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| Apr 8, 2022 at 3:21 | vote | accept | Philip Booker | ||
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| Mar 21, 2022 at 18:25 | comment | added | Tom | @Ruadhan I'm pretty sure the book is Last and First Men by Olaf Stapledon, written in 1930. (Warning: the version on Amazon has the first chapters substantially re-written to "correct" the author's predictions for the 20th century, a fact which the product page does not mention.) | |
| Mar 21, 2022 at 13:42 | comment | added | Ruadhan | @Tom That sounds like something by Stephen Baxter on the face of it. I'd be interested in reading more if you happen to remember anything else! | |
| Mar 21, 2022 at 0:24 | comment | added | Owen Reynolds | This is roughly the same as Gibson's arcologies in Neuromancer with one extra bit: the security also keeps key employees from being hired away. Sort of a gilded cage. | |
| Mar 20, 2022 at 21:51 | comment | added | SRM | @pellinore That’s why there are no extraterritorial locations in many cyberpunk novels. | |
| Mar 20, 2022 at 20:32 | comment | added | No Name | @Pelinore There's always a catch... | |
| Mar 20, 2022 at 16:18 | comment | added | Tom | @MontyWild No, not Dredd. IIRC, this story spans billions of years, over which the human race evolves into unrecognizable creatures. | |
| Mar 20, 2022 at 10:19 | comment | added | Pelinore | "This means that every employee can be protected by corporate security. It also makes it much easier for the employer to extract more working hours" and much easier for the hostile competition to take out the entire company workforce with one well placed drone strike controlled from an offshore subsidiary somewhere with privacy laws that make it impossible to prove they own the subsidiary that did it 😁 | |
| Mar 20, 2022 at 6:44 | comment | added | Monty Wild♦ | That story... Judge Dredd comics? | |
| Mar 20, 2022 at 5:06 | history | answered | Tom | CC BY-SA 4.0 |