Maybe they thought the song Private Idaho was aspirational.
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Is one of the billionaires in this consortium named Cross? Or, judging by some of the other renderings, Scorpio?
Looking at their site, I get a strong sense of Atlantis:Shanghai from Stephenson’s Diamond Age. Complete with Equity Lords.
The backers are all touched by this Libertarian-infused outlook to one degree or another:
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In all likelihood?
“We used AI to make these”
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That headline, too. “Good paying jobs.” Ugh.
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Always count the fingers stripes.
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Maybe that’s just what these techbros’ vision of a self-riding bike will look like.
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Humans aren’t much better.
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Wealthy people have a nasty habit of buying the state and local government to the degree of getting the regulations they desire.
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Here’s another one: the sun isn’t rising over the horizon, but erupting out of the Earth between some far-off ridges. Or maybe the ball of light is just supposed to represent a nuclear explosion cleansing the area of the unworthy humans inhabiting it.
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Or one of those domed cities from Logan’s Run?
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What’s that from? Feels like I should know it.
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Akira maybe?
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Akira
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I don’t know if it’s all of them, but for many, individual rights are a sub-set of property rights, because you own yourself.
Starting with that fallacy, they get to a Sovereign Citizen Lite kind of place.
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A.I. sucks at drawing everything
If we know a lot about bicycles we notice A.I. sucks at drawing bicycles
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until we’re in debt and have to start selling organs
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