Nothing that relies on AI that can pass for a competent human.
Admittedly, this is an ignorant guess, but I don’t think we’re on the right track to manufacture consciousness. I’m not even sure it can be done at all.
Is ‘Brazil’ in contention?
That’s closest to the expected Idiocracy in cyberpunk aesthetic.
Whoever thought that we’d look at idiocracy and think “well, it’s optimistic because they put the smart person in charge of real policy”
I guarantee it wasn’t Mike Judge. He put Crocs in the movie because they were just coming out and thought they were so stupid, they’d never take off.
Look where we are now.
Oof. The Ministry of Information would like to interview you about your involvement in this “buttle” affair.
Or ‘THX 1138’
Is our current dystopia not good enough?
“We have dystopia at home”
I was hoping for Shadowrun, at least there’d be magic, elves, orcs and trolls around
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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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.
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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Colin ‘Scarlett Johansson’s husband’ Jost.
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.
1984, but with Idiocracy.
Robocop one is rather close.
Wall-E, except no spaceship
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.
That was always one of my favorites, and it seemed so likely. Now, however, I realize that it was horribly overimpressed with corporations, like most 80s stuff was. We know innovation isn’t something megacorps do anymore.
The one I wished for was more of a Shadow Run future, and my native friends and I used to joke about it.
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.
They canceled it during the writer’s strike unfortunately
Ahhh sad
It doesn’t seem likely but stranger things have happened. Crossing my fingers.
Snow Crash seems to be a favorite of the current heads of mega tech corporations.
I gave up reading it because of the chase scenes early on. Was expecting it to be more heavy on philosophical concepts.
But I prefer Art house movies to Hollywood (except for Matrix which managed to combine action with philosophy).
-Federal government still technically exists but has barely any ability to do anything -Everything privatized including police and emergency services -Wealthy live in gated communities while most of the population lives in corporate owned slums -Leader of a megachurch is trying to take over the world
Yeah, this one really seems like we are heading in that direction.
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.
Akira Battle Angel? But, before the war or without the warrior women.
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.
I thought Hunger Games used at least, if not mostly, police and intelligence agency powers, much like 1984 and V for Vendetta… post Great War, at least.
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.
A small correction: Jabberjays were the mutts used for surveillance and reconnaissance, mockingjays were what happened when Jabberjays interbred with wild Mockingbirds. Nature reclaiming its beast allowed for the districts use them as a tool for communication, an insult to the capital who was trying to strip power away from the districts, not give them more. This is why the Mockingjay became the symbol of the rebellion.
^Alita
Although an Akira crossover with Alita could be fun.
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.
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Elysium
We can’t get to Elysium, because we defunded all our health care R&D
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.
The Road.
