Eyewitness From the Cockpit: F-15/16 vs. MiG-29

[StainlessSteelCynic]

Somewhat OT

You know, with only a small number of corporations left to supply equipment and the fact that those corporations are huge multi-national entities with considerable power to sway governments, it seems to me that the world has reached the problems of the Cyberpunk genre of games* - except we seem to have got them about 10-20 years ahead of Cyberpunk storylines.



* As in, corporations fighting dirty to sell their product even if it means foisting off any old crap to the customer - the product is not important, the sale is paramount.

[RN7]

Originally Posted by StainlessSteelCynic

Somewhat OT

You know, with only a small number of corporations left to supply equipment and the fact that those corporations are huge multi-national entities with considerable power to sway governments, it seems to me that the world has reached the problems of the Cyberpunk genre of games* - except we seem to have got them about 10-20 years ahead of Cyberpunk storylines.



* As in, corporations fighting dirty to sell their product even if it means foisting off any old crap to the customer - the product is not important, the sale is paramount.

As in Mike Pondsmith's Cyberpunk 2020 series? Its only 5 years away and there are already many parallels.

[StainlessSteelCynic]

Yeah RN7, that's pretty much what I was thinking.
Although I tend to think in the realworld we started much earlier than in the fictional cyberpunk worlds, not so much because of the tech but more so the status and size of corporations now and such things as employing private security companies for warfare and the loss of personal freedoms in the name of security etc. etc.