BCB CYBER
With special thanks to History.com, The Museum of the City of San Francisco, WorldPopulationReview.com, LatLong.net, Noehill.com, and WorldAtlas for a little background detail.
“Can you remember who you were before the world told you who you should be?”
Anonymous
Markets be crazy. Simple truth. No doubt about it.
However, we describe it, when prices crash it’s time to find our zen. Then, start picking and balancing.
All the homework we do prepares us for these moments. We expand our portfolio as the bulls roar, picking and choosing the best opportunities, and we focus and pull back into our strongest companies when things go awry. It’s about balance, again we find our zen.
If we are gonna live that high tech high, we gotta love that low life grind. Remember, we are in it for the long haul and we invest, we don’t trade. Ride strong like those digital samurai!
Best wishes to all you Cyberpunks out there! Remember we think for ourselves and define our own worlds. It’s possible in tech.
With special thanks to History Colorado, Uncover Colorado, and InfoPlease for a little background detail.
Be Water My Friend…
– Bruce Lee
Which high tech, low life story will we write today?
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Punk up and get it done… We, as individuals, define our worlds, not them. Not the government, not the corporate giants, not those telling us how to live our lives or what to think. We accept pain, not losses. We fight and we build.
Individuals are powerful.
It takes only one to lead! Be that leader.
Join BCB Cyber as we explore the high-tech, low-life wastelands known as modern cities. Their glory and their grime are our playgrounds.
As William Gibson referenced it a seminal work of cyberpunk fiction, City Come A-Walkin‘, one that foreshadowed the rise of cyberpunk akin to parental lineage itself, John Shirley’s description of city signifies the essential nature of that tech-fueled human creation to the genre known as cyberpunk (#CommissionsEarned).
The city become flesh and walking among us.
Lowlife and high stakes on future-bleak streets with tech enhancements.
A love story: a triangle between a man, a woman, and a city.
-John Shirley
His descriptions of a “chaotic, dystopian, near-future San Francisco” are as core to the high-tech, low-life stylings of cyberpunk as rainy nights and mega-corporations.
The point of all this, you can’t explore cyberpunk without exploring cities. Cities represent the very height of high-tech, low life, as within eyeshot of any skyline the two could not be more visible in today’s world. Homelessness, slums, drug deals on one corner, and towering, smart-skyscrapers the next. They are the most essential aesthetic to cyberpunk. Yes, even more so than a rainy night.
As a homage to the pithy nature of cities, we begin our travels. We aim to explore skyscrapers around the world, near and far. We will do biopics of tech’d up mega structures, explore and offer commentary on social issues unique to urban lifestyles, and much more. The weekends for BCB Cyber just got gothamized.
So as the Batman DC Universe pulls toward the cyberpunked skylines of urbanity in Batman Beyond, so we too pull toward the tech’d up cityscapes of a developing post-health crisis world in the cities many have fled. Let’s get back to our messed up lives folks and embrace the chaos.
Plus, if you haven’t checked it out yet, please dive into our analysis on Google and its parent company Alphabet Inc. It’s one you don’t want to miss!
Which high tech, low life story will we write today?
We, as individuals, define our worlds, not them. Not the government, not the corporate giants, not those telling us how to live our lives or what to think.
Individuals are powerful.
It takes only one to lead! Be that leader.
Happy Valentines Day to all of us Cyberpunks out there. In honor of this, we pull together three tales of love for your Valentine’s hearts in tech terms. Whether it be a love affair between two of the tech world’s giant players, an infatuation with the world’s newest digital money, or a more personal matter of physical well-being, this month’s Valentine’s Day is set to light our hearts aflutter.
We began this month with a love story like no other. It brings together two of the largest companies in technology today: Nvidia and ARM. Their bond would create a love story only the likes of Mr. Pool (Deadpool for the rest of us) could truly appreciate. If you missed that wonderful, fluttery rendition, please check it out here! The best part, this is a tale yet to close. We go back to the deal that breeds love this Wednesday when we close out our analysis of Nvidia and Arm joining as one!
As for our personal desires this Valentine’s, our hearts can certainly run away on us. Tech to the rescue. Earlier this month we found and reviewed a way in which tech can help us when our hearts seem to be running away on us, literally. When we feel our heart racing and all aflutter from all of today’s anxieties and excitements, it can be helpful to know we are still ok, physically. Tech can help provide those clues. To go deeper, dive in with our review of AliveCor’s Kardia Mobile that helps with gaining peace of mind and easing our tired nerves.
Our rising excitement this Valentine’s Day can perhaps be no better exemplified than Bitcoin rising again into Elysium! If you want to know more and peek behind the curtain, check out our Top Ten Things to Know About Bitcoin! And if you are dying to know more about the Cypherpunk and Cyberpunk Origins that led to things like Bitcoin, check it out here.
In the end, as always, we are not sponsored or supported by any of the above, we just love sharing great info about Tech. We do this in all its glory across all five main aspects of life throughout our busy weeks. In Wealth, Health, Wisdom, Gear, and Play, we offer you the best we find. To close this week, we offer our sincerest wish for a happy, and much beloved, not to mention tech-filled, Valentine’s Day.
On a final, personal note: To my beautiful Succubus, I wish the best of all Valentine’s Days!