I saw these and I thought they were so cute, like I genuinely wanted one for myself because it looked like something out of Subnautica. Then I go to the website and lo- it’s made for fucking landlords.
They even have a calculator that calculates rent for the pods.
They’ll never regulate this shit, you’ll have an absolute
putting like 10 in a house and charging every head full rent.
He was right 
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from Neuromancer (1984) book:
https://neuromancer.fandom.com/wiki/Cheap_Hotel
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Neuromancer was written thirty or forty years ago. Japan was expected to become economically dominant on a high tech manufacturing economy and many cyberpunk writers looked to high tech urban Japan to divine the outlines of the horrors of the near future.
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And earlier editions of Shadowrun.
FYI they’re kind of a novelty, most hotels in Japan are normal hotels. From what I understand they’re mostly a thing tourists in Tokyo do for shits and giggles.
Closer reality to this crappy motels that people actually use as cheap apartments which have been a thing for a long while.
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Those are pretty popular in cyberpunk genre, but always gets portrayed as significant part of why it is dystopia.
The neuromancer pods are bigger than the real ones.