Big Tech companies are finally getting the names we thought dystopian megacorps would have

I’m just waiting for Omni Consumer Products (OCP) to open in Detroit.

Don't forget Truth Social. Straight out of ministry of truth.

Now we just need companies to have their own militaries and then for someone to nuke one of their towers. We'd have the whole nine yards.

I still think it's hilarious that Facebook renamed to Meta, and anything they did with the "metaverse" was a huge failure. It's like they didn't learn their lesson from Second Life.

Don't forget the conglomerate names:

Microsoft-Activision-Blizzard

Oh and don't forget the cheeky suckers that explicitly named their nutritional supplement company Soylent Nutrition, Inc.

Pretty much. Welcome to the fucking future I guess. There's no flying cars and green cities and happiness or bloody universal healthcare, instead we have corpos trying to turn us into their consumer slaves and governments turning authoritarian. Just do what you're told and buy more. Don't ask questions don't think just browse TikTok, improve your social credit score, and imprint more ads into your psyche until WW3.

We're walking into hell with our eyes wide open fuck me it hurts.

My first ISP in the late 90s was Skynet Online.

Those names were always parodying the names of actual corporations. I'm pretty sure Weyland Yutani is basically supposed to be like Lockheed Mitsubishi

Normal people reading dystopian fiction: “wow, the author really portrayed well the downfall of humanity if we were to go down the wrong path”

Billionaires reading dystopian fiction: “hey, you know what…”

When Weyland corp announce a merger with Yutani industries it's time to worry.

Waiting for Weyland-Yutani...

When runaway capitalism is the norm and all the shareholders care about is that bottomline, then they will lean into the dystopia and be blatant about it when nobody is stopping them laughing all the way to the bank.

You want a trip down “is this a cyberpunk dystopia company” name, go check out the data brokers on the data broker registries in Vermont and California.

There's also E Corp from Mr. Robot.

I always thought this for the financial market: Standard & Poor

Moody

The Fed (as in, the past tense of feed)

You didn't mention Facebook? That's super dystopian to me. What's a face book if not a large collection of identities being monitored?

I'm still waiting for the cool neon signs.

I also like Alliant Techsystems, then merged with Orbital Sciences Corp into Orbital ATK.

They are part of NGIS (Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems), so evil things might come from there.

I find it amusing how nobody noticed when Valve changed their name to Valve Corporation ages ago, and people keep referring to it as Valve Software.

Yea, X Corps definitely becomes the manufacturer of the protein bar machines on snowpiercer

If you think about it, all sorts of fucked up things that are happening now have been portrayed as a bad thing in past media: Virtual words, virtual-fuckin' land (not 100% sure this one is real, still really hoping its not), misuse of AI, smart houses, where everything is controlled by a remote (which relies on electricity / wi-fi), even stuff like alexa, which is listening to every word you say, at your home...

Art creates the future. Whatever we envision we steer ourselves toward, consciously or unconsciously. A vision has gravity, and pulls people toward it. The more a vision is etched into people’s minds, the more likely we will live it.

I’m convinced Apple’s overall aesthetic is based on Star Trek: TNG. Or at least it was for a phase, until we got bored with it and took it even further.

Amazon web services

Doesnt sound so evil...

There's a company called Hashicorp that's been in the news recently. Literally perfect

Pinkerton Consulting and Investigations Inc is a pretty good one too.

As long as we get coporate songs like this: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6HTR0BiFehA

Again

There's a company near me called the Telamon Corporation, which is the name of the Dragon from the Wheel of Time. So it's not just cyberpunk, there's fantasy as well

My favorite is literally just "Brand." The "generic" brand company. Although I feel like they leaned purposefully into the cyberpunk shit.

We live in the world where Mr robot failed and gave up.

Theranos sounded like a superhero villain. I guess it kind of was?

Alphabet.

Skynet.net

Currently waiting for BiffCo to spice up our lives and give us floating long boards

I mean, they're all also chasing AI too doesn't that typically lead to our demise too?

When I think about the fact that Facebook thought it was a good idea to name their online VR platform “the metaverse“ it still breaks my brain a little bit

I mean, they’re no Tessier-Ashpool,SA. or anything.

Ultimate Marvel's Gregory Stark was supposed to be a caricature. He's spot on though.

I'm not a Christian, but can we start rapturing people away anyway? I gotta get out this bitch.

My fucking drunk self, highly agrees with you.

I'm waiting for Fuchi and Renraku...

Anaheim Electronics when? If I have to die in a war, I want to die in a Gundam.

Waiting for Sense/Net

We are here.

Fuck I hadn't thought about it.

Microsoft was way ahead of everyone.

Wow it didn't hit me until I read your post. Thanks OP.

Dude "X corp" totally sounds dystopian lmfao

Real life is getting closer to cyberpunk but without the cool tech.

Wait for the AI corps!

Skynet.net

The meta rebranding made my skin craw. The X rebranding is dumb on Elon Musk's part. However you make a good point.

I believe Apple got its name from the biblical term of the forbidden fruit. Microsoft has a megacorp sounding name. Will Amazon rename itself to something dystopian?

Bill Clinton's "Star Wars" program.