High-tech/low-life is just a feature of cyberpunk. It’s not necessarily the case that it will fit neatly into other genres. For instance, “Apocalypse” could be like Fallout, which is decidedly not “low tech”. Different genres feature different aspects that are more central to it, so Solarpunk has an emphasis on environment and futuristic progress, Fallout embodies Atompunk with its emphasis on retrofuturism and nuclear, and then you have “science fantasy” hybrids, etc etc.
Syfer2x
You got solar punk wrong. Solar punk is inherently tied to the progression of technology. Low tech would be “cottage punk”
AnarchoLiberator
The Culture aka Interstellar Post-Scarcity Civilization
Liquidwombat
Solar punk is high tech. It’s just high tech that is being used in concert with nature
Kaiserhawk
I fucking hate solarpunk so much
sAu5000
nasapunk
Biggus_Dickkus_
The Culture
TQMA
Fusion of transhumanism and cyberpunk: Transhumanpunk
tasetase
Hightech / Highlife = Utopic
Chickenkorma666
Solar punk is high tech high life.
DrFolAmour007
Fully automated gay space communism !
jack_of_all_hobbies
With low tech you’re looking at dieselpunk, not apocalypse.
human-0
I’ve been wanting that quadrant for so many years. Star Trek is usually the only franchise that fills this, and it’s a major reason I’m a fan. But I really would love to see more scifi that has an optimistic view of the future.
Synthesid
That would indeed be solarpunk, you’ve misplaced it. Low tech – high life would be a… Druidpunk? Elfpunk?
mindlance
High Life/High Tech is Raygun Gothic.
revfitz
Have you never seen Star Trek?
ThaneOfTas
Atom Punk maybe,
I feel like that a mis categorisation of Solar Punk though tbh, the central premise is the progression of technology allowing society to still advance while being in greater harmony with our environment
fern-grower
Near future, Deep future.
CathariCvnt
Top left would obviously be socialist futurism
BigJack1212
High tech high life is cyberpunk, but for corpos :’)
AdonisGaming93
Ehhh not really. Apocalypse doesn’t always mean low-tech
And well theres plenty of high-life in cyberpunk it’s just the rich elite enjoying it.
More closer example is how evenly disteibuted aealth is. Solarpunk is more akin to like social society with more wealth equality and good living standards for all while cyberpunk is extreme inequality
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High tech + high life = post-cyberpunk.
Raypunk
High-tech/low-life is just a feature of cyberpunk. It’s not necessarily the case that it will fit neatly into other genres. For instance, “Apocalypse” could be like Fallout, which is decidedly not “low tech”. Different genres feature different aspects that are more central to it, so Solarpunk has an emphasis on environment and futuristic progress, Fallout embodies Atompunk with its emphasis on retrofuturism and nuclear, and then you have “science fantasy” hybrids, etc etc.
You got solar punk wrong. Solar punk is inherently tied to the progression of technology. Low tech would be “cottage punk”
The Culture aka Interstellar Post-Scarcity Civilization
Solar punk is high tech. It’s just high tech that is being used in concert with nature
I fucking hate solarpunk so much
nasapunk
The Culture
Fusion of transhumanism and cyberpunk: Transhumanpunk
Hightech / Highlife = Utopic
Solar punk is high tech high life.
Fully automated gay space communism !
With low tech you’re looking at dieselpunk, not apocalypse.
I’ve been wanting that quadrant for so many years. Star Trek is usually the only franchise that fills this, and it’s a major reason I’m a fan. But I really would love to see more scifi that has an optimistic view of the future.
That would indeed be solarpunk, you’ve misplaced it. Low tech – high life would be a… Druidpunk? Elfpunk?
High Life/High Tech is Raygun Gothic.
Have you never seen Star Trek?
Atom Punk maybe,
I feel like that a mis categorisation of Solar Punk though tbh, the central premise is the progression of technology allowing society to still advance while being in greater harmony with our environment
Near future, Deep future.
Top left would obviously be socialist futurism
High tech high life is cyberpunk, but for corpos :’)
Ehhh not really. Apocalypse doesn’t always mean low-tech
And well theres plenty of high-life in cyberpunk it’s just the rich elite enjoying it.
More closer example is how evenly disteibuted aealth is. Solarpunk is more akin to like social society with more wealth equality and good living standards for all while cyberpunk is extreme inequality
solarpunk isn’t low tech.
High-life/High-tech is Utopian.