Whereas previous economic shocks such as the oil crisis of 1973 caused a temporary dip in fertility, the 2007-2008 banking meltdown was different because birth rates continued to decline even after the economy started growing again, says to Daniele Vignoli, professor of demography at the University of Florence in Italy. He believes the turbulence a decade and a half ago marks the point at which people’s uncertainty about the future began to take hold.

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    1 year ago

    B-but holograms though.

    Nah I get it, I wouldn’t plug corpo augs and decks into myself either. But you’ll recall that in the stories, the punks also just made their own, 3d printed or cracked and rooted, running self-made FOSS they downloaded from the Net. We’re kinda living that future with Linux, F-droid, 3d printers and all the rest, but still, none of the aesthetics. No holograms or hoverbikes makes me sad.

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      running self-made FOSS they downloaded from the Net.

      That’s just a different flavour of yolo. All fun and games until you break the firmware for your bowel functions.

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        “A small price to pay for salvation cyborg augs” - the cyborg in the middle of disassembling their abdomen, maybe

        I still want my off the shelf holograms, EMP grenades and pulse rifles and hoverbike tho.