Using female gaze to invoke an object that slots neatly into the Y2K nostalgia but also answers for the loss of autonomy and control in an age of Platform and Rentier Capitalism. One builder of the cyberdeck discussed this nostalgia as well as the techno-optimism of the era.,
One such use for a Cyberdeck is to completely download Wikipedia in anticipation for the End of the World.
Cyberdeck’s invoke Gibson’s Neuromancer and his vision of the “consensual hallucination with the matrix,” aka Cyberspace.
Despite the idea being over 40 years year, a place where this information has been assembled and proliferated for the last 14 years is r/cyberDeck with head mod Talulabelle helping people customize their hardware.
The author of this article also suggests the “uselessness” is half of the fun. If you NEEDED it, there would be a company that made one already. This is more of a meditation on critically examining your relationship to technology.
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