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Dumpshock Forums _ Shadowrun _ A Glimpse of 2075

Posted by: CeaDawg Jan 31 2006, 08:52 AM

Here's eBay Korea's impression of the future. It's their latest ad there.

http://youtube.com/w/Welcome-to-eBay?v=Ipz1ydBmudM&search=Welcome%20to%20eBay

Posted by: Dog Jan 31 2006, 02:12 PM

So it's one of those versions of the future where anything more than fifteen years old is torn apart and incinerated.... a little more Star Trek than Shadowrun, IMHO.

Cool guitar, though. Didn't Bill S. Preston have one of those?

Posted by: Krotiez Jan 31 2006, 03:57 PM

You have to realize that after the Korean War, Seoul was in pretty bad shape and a flood of refugees from all over South Korea had fled to it. There was a huge population boom there. Huge. Buildings went up everywhere and even today there's constant renovation occuring.

Seoul has roughly 25% of South Korea's population. One out of every four men, women, and children live there.

Posted by: PBTHHHHT Jan 31 2006, 05:20 PM

Depends on the city and such, course by then, for a place like NYC, I think too many of the buildings would qualify under the historic buildings preservation that you can't tear down too many of the buildings.

I can see that with Seoul and any other cities that have been hit hard by strife. Oh, and some places like in Shanghai, they're constantly just throwing up buildings, so if a corp pays off the correct local official, yeah, you can get the building approval to put up new buildings and tear down the old stuff. lol.

Posted by: Calvin Hobbes Jan 31 2006, 08:11 PM

I think the Historic Preservation LAws are kind of defunct by the time of Shadowrun. First of all, Canada and America have different limitations for what protects a building, so the law may have been rewritten, plus property belonging to a multinational coporation would be considered their extraterritorial property, which they can do what they like with.

Posted by: eidolon Feb 1 2006, 04:30 AM

Um. That's not Korean. That's Chinese. (They're speaking Mandarin Chinese. The last line is something like "Welcome to Ebay, the site that ten thousand(something) people have recently discovered.")

Posted by: CeaDawg Feb 1 2006, 05:42 AM

ShiNiKe & I discovered that after the initial post. The same ad is running in both countries. The best that we can tell, is that eBay China is the primary source for the eBay ad material in the Asian arena of the PacRim, and is dubbed locally.

Posted by: eidolon Feb 1 2006, 05:59 AM

Quite possible.