Meta Platforms. X Corp. tell me those aren’t straight from a strangely prescient cyberpunk classic

  • jtk@lemmy.sdf.org
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    1 year ago

    I don’t get how the name is dystopian. Is it from a book or movie or something? Search only turns up the company you’re talking about.

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      Could be that it mixes what sounds like a Japanese name with an English word, which makes it seem like a company from Japan operating in an English speaking place.

      In the 1980s people expected that Japan was going to take over more and more American business. Japan was a major player and so sci fi written then — including that which was cyberpunk dystopian — assumed there’d be companies like “Ford” but named after Japanese guys.

      Also it’s not “Hashi Corporation” it’s “HashiCorp” which implies a sort of pop-cultureification, like the company has sort of compacted over the years, and gotten less Japanese (known) and more hybrid Japanese-American-Corporate-Marketing (unknown, megacorps have shady cultures, they’re new things).

      If HashiCorp were to show up in a movie, it would be in a holographic ad someone flies past.

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        And we are kind of getting there, but we often see multinational megacorps with Chinese or Korean names/origin.