Which dystopic megacorp do we get first in our brave new world? (lemmy.world)

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Cyberdyne Systems, Wayland-Yutani Corporation, Tyrell Corporation, or Arasaka Corporation? Something else?

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[-] cybervseas@lemmy.world 67 points 5 days ago

Nah nothing that cool. A megacorp that has so much influence that it doesn't need a military of its own. It knows everything it needs to about everyone, can sway public opinion as it wishes, and will continue to enmesh itself into every aspect of private and public life. It produces no products. We are the products, and we are the consumers.

And it's already here: Google, Meta, whatever Elon Musk is doing idk.

[-] EleventhHour@lemmy.world 20 points 5 days ago

So, Evil Corp, then

[-] joyjoy@lemm.ee 8 points 5 days ago

Pizza Hut's biggest mistake was selling off their war-fleet.

[-] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 2 points 4 days ago

Which was a shame as Taco bell won the fast food wars.

[-] tourist@lemmy.world 8 points 5 days ago

Sometimes the companies they subcontract, named something boring and innocuous like Isolace Data Systems or Wimblo Digital or some shit, fucks up spectacularly.

Like they'll just have 400gb Excel spreadsheet called all_meta_usernames_and_passwords.xlsx stored in the company's shared intranet and then some dude guesses the WiFi password was WimbloDigital2024 and leaks it to whoever.

[-] 1984@lemmy.today 4 points 5 days ago

Yeah I don't see how anyone can not see it's Google... Who else is even close to having all our data? All the web searches, mobile android play backend, maps, Google streetcar, etc etc... They know everything.

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