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Image description: the yaer was Two Thousand and twenty-four. I took a puff of my Electronic-Cigarette, inhaling the vapours. my mobile terminal buzzed in my pocket, a flat slab of microchips and glossy touchscreen. I ignored it… probably another Electronic-Mail
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The near-blinding kaleidoscope of lights and color faded to blackness as my virtual reality headset powered down. Pulling the headset away, I yawned and blinked, my eyes adjusting to the LED lighting that bathed my gaming space in neon. I fumbled to turn off the lights. Many colleagues of mine had taken to configuring such devices with voice recognition and control, but truthfully, I was too uneasy to do so myself, fearing who might be listening on the other end.
I checked the device in my pocket for the current time. Damn. Later than I hoped.
I walked sluggishly away to bed, punching buttons on the slab in my hand until alarms were set, calendars were reviewed, and quiet again took the space.
Wait nooo you made this a genre I actually want!!!Modern, within our grasp technology, yet written in this futuristic detective noir style. Kinda like Veronica Mars was a modern take on the style.
Or like William Gibson writing in William Gibson’s style
In case you haven’t heard of it, check out Altered Carbon. It’s a series and the first book is cyberpunk noir detective stuff. Rest aren’t. Good, but not in the noir style.
Contemporary, but make it crunchy. Make it pulpy.
Imagine being in the Victorian Era and reading a sci-fi novel on how daily life in the future includes dodging nigerian princes, offering you millions of dollars, and penis enlargement offers.
Ye olde Coin of Bit.
everybody used to bite nickel, now everybody bitcoin
And all the hot singles right around you
def the dumbest cyberpunk story
And that is all they did for the next 36 hours.
Honestly, it would be fun to rewrite an old story with modern terminology.
Shakespeare didn’t sound like classical poshness to his works’ first audiences. It had new words in it and didn’t require mispronunciations in order to rhyme. It was more like storytelling via rap battle and I’m down for some early 21st-century upgrades to it.
There is a whole bunch of 21st century rewrites of Shakespeare but I can’t remember who did them. It might have been the BBC.
I know that Macbeth takes place in a Michelin star restaurant. And I’m fairly sure Taming Of The Shrew takes place in a Centre Parcs
Similarly, I’ve seen a few operas that were modernizes. To varying success… The ring cycle doesn’t really work well with that butbla bohem was pretty good.
