Transistor is celebrating its 10-year anniversary today, May 20, 2024.
In 2014, a singer having her voice captured and digitized against her will was a novel sci-fi conceit.
Ten years later, it sounds eerily familiar.
Designers, journalists, and painters were all targeted by the elite group one by one.
The Camerata methodically ripped the city of Cloudbank of not just key citizens, but also character and grace.
Toward the evening, “Traverson Hall Is Gone” marks a poignant beginning of the end.
Most of the citizens you encounter are either soon-to-be or already deceased.
Mechanically, doing so gives you a new ability to mix and match during combat.
Garbur is one of the few characters who avoids this digitization.
Instead, her work speaks for herself, right until the bitter end.
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Others likeCNETandBuzzFeed, the latter shuttering its news division in the process, followed suit.
During the Met Gala, images of artists like Rihanna and Katy Perry went viral, despite being fake.
In Arizona,workers are being trainedto prepare themselves for misleading images ahead of the 2024 elections.
The dystopian future depicted in Transistor isn’t filled with one-on-one premonitions of our current reality.
Yet, the parallels hit too close to home for comfort.
There’s an enemy throw in that “attacks” Red by taking pictures of her.
Revisiting these themes through a modern-day lens can leave us with a defeated feeling.
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