Elysium
Instead of a space station, the ultra rich will live in a giant gated city that has all the world’s latest technologies and medical services.
The rest of us will work menial jobs to supply everything for the city.
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^Alita
Although an Akira crossover with Alita could be fun.
The other one I was thinking of was Hunger Games … 12 different regions governed over by one powerful region that controls everyone else with military power using all the latest most deadly and most invasive technologies humanity can imagine.
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I don’t remember all the details of the film series … but a feature of it was in seeing genetically enhanced, augmented animals and insects used for warfare … killer wasps, more powerful animals, birds eaves dropping and recording conversations (the mocking jay)
Imagine a world where genetic modification became unrestricted and used for warfare and used to enhance or modify humans, animals, insects or diseases or conditions.
That movie was contemporary geopolitical commentary using a sci-fi metaphor. Same as District 9 (a refugee crisis). So you could argue that future is now, depending on your views.
Science fiction is usually about present issues. It puts them in a different context to offer a different perspective and enable consideration.
That’s true. It’s also a way of taking contemporary trends and extending them in a slippery-slope type analysis.
The Twilight Zone and Black Mirror have entered the chat.
I replied elsewhere but, yes, that’s what they want. Peter Thiel is a proponent of the Network State and absolutely is working towards that end.
Elysium
We can’t get to Elysium, because we defunded all our health care R&D
most likely? not the xenomorph part of Alien, specifically, but the general message of unchecked corporate greed leading to disaster for everyone is an all-timer.
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Wall-E, except no spaceship
Is ‘Brazil’ in contention?
Oof. The Ministry of Information would like to interview you about your involvement in this “buttle” affair.
That’s closest to the expected Idiocracy in cyberpunk aesthetic.
I think Blade Runner 2049 is our most likely future from a food systems/decimated eco system perspective. Androids and flying cars, yeah, maybe. No natural vegetation and only the only crops being produced in greenhouses. Probably not by 2049, but I could easily see it by 2149.
Is our current dystopia not good enough?
“We have dystopia at home”
Robocop one is rather close.
Snow Crash seems to be a favorite of the current heads of mega tech corporations.
Children of Men is happening
imo i think this was one of the most prescient
I was hoping for Shadowrun, at least there’d be magic, elves, orcs and trolls around
William Gibson’s writing after the Sprawl trilogy always seemed very likely to happen. I mean, squatters living on the Bay Bridge in NorCal after it gets damaged in an earthquake, for instance. Not the really out there stuff.
Yes, absolutely. His most recent books, the peripheral and agency, have a very plausible outcome—ultra rich living supported by automation after 60-80% of the less fortunate perish over 30 Years in a series of rolling catastrophes they affectionately refer to as “the great jackpot”.
I’m almost done watching Season 1 of The Peripheral tv show now. Its really good.
Yeah I thought they did a great job on that one, hoping they make a season 2.
It doesn’t seem likely but stranger things have happened. Crossing my fingers.
They canceled it during the writer’s strike unfortunately
Ahhh sad
1984 and brave new world simultaneously
This is what I tell everyone, we’re on a path where both of these novels are true, at one point will there be a split of one or the other. I think it’ll end up closer to 1984.
Or Judge Dredd, Demolition Man
I actually think that Hollywood is putting out these movies to get everyone used to the behaviour. Well not actually but maybe it’s sort of somewhat possible.
Side note: I really liked Her. Great music, relatable story (for terminally online folk at least). If you haven’t seen it, I’d recommend.
Karen O is a treasure.
"ChatGPT has released a new voice assistant feature inspired by Scarlett Johansson’s AI character in ‘Her,’ which I’ve never bothered to watch because
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without that body, what’s the point of listening?
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Colin ‘Scarlett Johansson’s husband’ Jost.
A mix of Her, Gattaca, Mad Max, Idiocracy, 1984, Ready Player One, Waterworld.
Mad Max once climate change really gets cooking.
Except we’ll be running around like cave people with spears made of iron or copper pipe … we might get imaginative and use bicycles or giant kites or wind surfing.
Horses might exist but they’ll be too expensive to maintain and will only be available in certain regions where expertise can survive alongside the farming resources to maintain these animals
It might look like Mad Max for about 10 years maybe 20 but not beyond that.
Motorized vehicles won’t be possible after 20/30 years because all fuel supplies will disappear, any stored fuel will break down and be unusable or contaminated and there will be no more manufacturing of new fuels. And if there are places producing new liquid fuels, they won’t be able to supply anyone beyond 100 km of the manufacturing center. Wars will be fought for the fuel centers and chances are they will be destroyed in the fighting.
