Cyberdyne Systems, Wayland-Yutani Corporation, Tyrell Corporation, or Arasaka Corporation? Something else?
Nah nothing that cool. A megacorp that has so much influence that it doesn’t need a military of its own. It knows everything it needs to about everyone, can sway public opinion as it wishes, and will continue to enmesh itself into every aspect of private and public life. It produces no products. We are the products, and we are the consumers.
And it’s already here: Google, Meta, whatever Elon Musk is doing idk.
Sometimes the companies they subcontract, named something boring and innocuous like Isolace Data Systems or Wimblo Digital or some shit, fucks up spectacularly.
Like they’ll just have 400gb Excel spreadsheet called all_meta_usernames_and_passwords.xlsx stored in the company’s shared intranet and then some dude guesses the WiFi password was WimbloDigital2024 and leaks it to whoever.
Pizza Hut’s biggest mistake was selling off their war-fleet.
Which was a shame as Taco bell won the fast food wars.
The world got its first dystopian megacorp several hundred years ago and it was called the East India Company
British or Dutch?
Yes
Pssst, Amazon already exists…
If we have to go by a fictional one, I think OCP.
You down with OCP (Yeah you know me)
Who’s down with OCP (Every last homie)
You down with OCP (Yeah you know me)
Who’s down with OCP (All the homies)
I’m not sure if that’s OC or a reference I’m not cultured enough to understand, but I can absolutely imagine a modern OCP advertising jingle like that, showing how down with everyone OCP is and totally not evil in any shape or form. The TV ad of course shows people dancing to it like it’s some coke ad.
Reference to “OPP” by Naughty by Nature, late 80s hip-hop.
Amazon?
The joke’s on us, we’ve been in the dystopic megacorp era since the 00’s.
80s. Check out Snow Crash.
The similarities I see between them and the Aztec corporation from shadowrun is pretty astounding. Both primarily sell consumer goods.
Fucking Nestle
Umbrella Corp.
Or possibly Conglomo (from Rocko’s Modern Life). They own everything and are run by two dip shits.
RobCo
Military contractor and aerospace giant obsessed with autonomous AI.
Replace Robert House with El*n and it’s halfway there already.
Weyland-Yutani canonically merged with Wal-Mart, so Wal-Mart.
Buy N Large!
Kroger
Tyrell, because Paypalpatine wants his sex robots, ands that means replicants.
But the other Paypalpatine is building the precrime Minority Report machine. We’re really getting the worst of all these fucking shitheads combined.
E Corp
Taco Bell
Spoiler
Demolition Man
Viridian Dynamics.
“Veridian Dynamics. People Lie. Companies protect their interests. It’s different.”
Costco
I like money.
Welcome to Costco. I love you
I could really go for a Starbucks right now.
We don’t have time for a hand job.
