Which dystopic megacorp do we get first in our brave new world?
Which dystopic megacorp do we get first in our brave new world?
Cyberdyne Systems, Wayland-Yutani Corporation, Tyrell Corporation, or Arasaka Corporation? Something else?
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.
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.
Pizza Hut's biggest mistake was selling off their war-fleet.
Which was a shame as Taco bell won the fast food wars.
The world got its first dystopian megacorp several hundred years ago and it was called the East India Company
British or Dutch?
Yes
Pssst, Amazon already exists...
If we have to go by a fictional one, I think OCP.
You down with OCP (Yeah you know me)
Who's down with OCP (Every last homie)
You down with OCP (Yeah you know me)
Who's down with OCP (All the homies)
I'm not sure if that's OC or a reference I'm not cultured enough to understand, but I can absolutely imagine a modern OCP advertising jingle like that, showing how down with everyone OCP is and totally not evil in any shape or form. The TV ad of course shows people dancing to it like it's some coke ad.
Fucking Nestle
RobCo
Military contractor and aerospace giant obsessed with autonomous AI.
Replace Robert House with El*n and it's halfway there already.
Buy N Large!
Tyrell, because Paypalpatine wants his sex robots, ands that means replicants.
But the other Paypalpatine is building the precrime Minority Report machine. We're really getting the worst of all these fucking shitheads combined.
Taco Bell
Spoiler
Demolition Man
E Corp
Viridian Dynamics.
"Veridian Dynamics. People Lie. Companies protect their interests. It's different."
Kroger
We need to revive the neon sign industry at least
Ares macrotechnology. Guns, cars, space, a private military/police force, and 'Mom and Apple pie.'
I'm holding out for Aperture Science, if for no other reason than that their AI has a dry, dark sense of humor.
It's all of them, all at once. Yesterday.
It's called the United States of America
Umbrella Corp.
Or possibly Conglomo (from Rocko's Modern Life). They own everything and are run by two dip shits.
Weyland-Yutani canonically merged with Wal-Mart, so Wal-Mart.
Neuralink.
Virtucon (Dr Evil's org in Austin Powers)
We get Qualityland's "The Shop" if we like it or not.
Mao-Kwikowski Mercantile, with their subsidiary Protogen.
OCP
ICP
Brondo, the thirst mutilator.
Blue Sun