unlike streaming, you never have to worry about a giant company suddenly taking them away from you. They can be easily duplicated, shared, and made into mixtapes using equipment you find in a junk shop.#
I'm almost sure there are other technologies you could use for that...
No, growing up in a violent environment is the (or rather a) problem.
It's not easy seeing green.
Even if the code is flawless now, all it takes is a single flawed line of new code. This is of course true for all languages, but type safety helps a lot as some types of flaws would not compile.
Or just asking friends and family for advice.
I once had a hammer head get loose and fly off the handle.
Hard to describe. I started to feel the same way about the real world as I did about the world described in the books. Like the high tech, low life concept - just because we have shiny things does not mean we have a good life. And developing a tendency for rather diverse and/or weird friend groups who band together to fight for our place in this world. I mean, the books obviously crank everything up to 11, but the prower structures seem very similar.
I was reading Shadowrun books about evil megacorporations who are mightier than nation states and indigenous liberation movements against them, so I paid a lot of attention to real world politics when I read the news about stuff like NAFTA and the EZLN or the MAI agreement.
social democracy = socialism = communism = USSR. Why do we even have some many different words?
Why are there pens in the hammer factory? Just because you build a tool does not mean you should use it for everything.
Note: I'm not saying you should use Zoom for anything.
Shadowrun - it had a tremendous effect on my actual worldview (as did other cyberpunk works). The near-future cyberpunk setting offers plenty of opportunity for satire, being rooted in this world makes some geography and history relatable and mixing it with fantasy elements does not only make it more colorful and varied, but also prevents unrealistic stuff from breaking my immersion, because it does not pretend to be realistic.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loss_(Ctrl%2BAlt%2BDel)