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"Lack of respect, wrong attitude, failure to obey authority. The Farm, immediately. - death sentence in Ellison’s book ‘A Boy and His Dog’
Awesome book. The whole series was good, except the last one.
Wall-E by way of 1984.
100% no doubt The parable of the sower and subsequent book. I read that book - started reading it - in June this year and read it over about a month. It was very creepy to be reading a sci fy book set in the future that is now my present and while it is not as bad right now as Octavia Butler makes it out to be, we are definitely heading there if drastic action is not taken immediately.
Edit: the books in order: (Only two, sadly she died while writing the third but still both worth reading, there isn’t a clif hanger at the end) https://www.octaviabutler.com/parableseries
Absolutely this! Octavia Butler literally wrote a fascist American president with the slogan “Make America Great Again” in 1993.
The Simpsons
Contagion and Children of Men - while they didn’t look far into the future and dealt with existing problems, it’s still horrifyingly accurate.
Jasper: “Pull my finger”
Penultimate Truth. Predicted containing the cattle using fear of something that doesn’t even exist in reality.
All of the negatives from Metropolis 2001
Metropolis (2001): How Capitalism Produces Fascism
The Temporal Messages of Metropolis
Elon Musk = Duke Red
Been reading Corey Doctorow lately and catch myself thinking, “Aw c’mon! That’s not how it works!” And then remember, he’s writing about the near future.
Radicalized was pretty damn close to the mark. Sure in this case Luigi was radicalized from back pain and not cancer.
I could see the Golgafrinchan telephone sanitizer situation coming to pass.
Just time for another bath!
Her.
Given that we’ve already had a few suicides caused by (or at least exacerbated by) LLM chatbots, I think we’re already there.
If we don’t dodge that bullet, Years and Years. Or Neuromancer.
Neuromancer would be an improvement at this point. Gibson underestimated just how bad corporations could get.
I’ve gotta go with Mad Max here. Between the words oil obsession, rising aggression and dumbing down of society I can’t see it going any other way.
WALL-E. We just don’t have a way to escape yet, but the rest is happening regardless.
I’m sure Bezass and Muskpoo got us covered, just most of us can’t afford to leave with them.
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That’s a very optimistic view of our future.
Brave New World
In some ways we’re already living it
Our drugs aren’t that good. And the system isn’t optimizing for maximum happiness.
Scroll down and keep the endorphins flowing.
I suppose he was referring to the general “this is fine” attitude.
Forced promiscuity?
