alt Hacker News> Visions of faceless large corporations or even HAL controlling a small town are frightening and the stuff of science fiction.
Company towns are well-recorded history, not science fiction. Lost Hills California (home of Wonderful Pistachios) exists in the real, present, non-fictional world.
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FuriouslyAdrift • today at 7:14 PM
I mean... Larry Ellison bought an entire Hawaiian island... from the Dole family
staplers • today at 7:27 PM
Dupont, WA is another
opengrass • today at 6:28 PM
Water main upgrade canceled because Sandeep from Nepal voted against it.
That does not make it not frightening nor not the stuff of science fiction. We know how awful corporate towns are that’s partly why cyberpunk is what it is.