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From Cyberpunk Dreams to Defense Tech

Anduril launches reminded me why science fiction and defense tech still pull me in.

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Have you seen Anduril’s videos lately? It’s so fucking cool. Defense industry anime FTW.

Command the Sea. Command the World. Introducing: Barracuda-M Family of Cruise Missiles

Autonomous platforms coordinating with humans like a synchronized engine of intent. Sensors. Algorithms. Decisions made faster than thought. It looks like a cutscene from a game I grew up playing.

A theater where machines and people move in perfect coordination, as if some distant cosmic audience were watching the smallest dust particles rearrange themselves.

I grew up on science fiction. Worlds where technology wasn’t decoration. It was leverage. Today, it feels like a preview of the near future.

I’ve always been a fan of the so-called cyberpunk genre. Not the dystopian aspect of it, but the way technology plays a massive role in shaping the world.

I grew up watching Blade Runner, Ghost in the Shell, Psycho-Pass, and Ergo Proxy. I’m a big fan of the Mass Effect series, Command & Conquer, the Deus Ex series, and more recently Cyberpunk.

It feels natural that I’m drawn to tech, defense, and the military. I’ve been fascinated by them for as long as I can remember.

But growing up on what used to be the poorer side of Malaysia, that world felt distant. Not impossible. Just something you could admire from afar, through a screen, but never quite step into.

And until now, I have never looked away from that window.

As time passed, I gathered what little I could. Maybe, just enough to finally step beyond that window.