In not too distant future, in a universe not too dissimilar to ours, the world is barren. Vast sprawls of arid deserts and inhospitable jungles cover the face of the planet, while the majority of its denizens persist in gigantic walled-off Metacities, governed by the omni present gov-corporations. These cities are home to many beings living under the tyranical regimes of their watchful overlords. This is the age of technocrats, transhumanists and digisophers, all slaves to meticulously crafted closed hardware, deceptive software and cyber practices designed to enthrall all who wish to persist on this new frontier of the future.
I just wondered if you had a link to a story or analysis summarizing that, since I wasn't aware of any of it. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction, I'll look it up.
If an extinction-level event happens soon and all this info is stored in an EMP-proof bunker somewhere, future alien historians will say that the moths and the lamps represented how helpless we felt in the face of our certain demise.
I had the full run of the The Office on video. I had video editing software. I had it all planned out, how I was going to edit out 90% the Jim scenes from The Office, so I could play the whole thing on loop without intro or outro or the worst parts of the last two seasons.
Then I stared in the mirror for a long time and I was like: wtf am I doing with my life? And I haven't watched The Office since.
Finally got around to listening to this... good stuff, sounds like it could be on a Ghost In The Shell soundtrack...
According to the Bandcamp page, there's lore to this. Unfortunately the web page it references seems to be down ATM, but the archive page backs up some of it. also there's an instagram page.
https://analognowhere.com/wiki/analognowhere/
As you probably know, this is considered a very plausible future. (cite, pg 34, "Barbarization")