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Science Fiction Universes that got it right/wrong
Posted on 3/17/13 at 11:36 am
Posted on 3/17/13 at 11:36 am
ie, created a "Future" that's most accurate with realistic technology, ect, and those that didn't.
Got it right:
Children of Men Advertising projected on buildings, everyone driving little bitch cars. Kinda cheated though, as 21 years of SHTF really slows down advancement.
Got it wrong:
BTT2. Hoverboards only 30 years in the future. Come on.
Got it right:
Children of Men Advertising projected on buildings, everyone driving little bitch cars. Kinda cheated though, as 21 years of SHTF really slows down advancement.
Got it wrong:
BTT2. Hoverboards only 30 years in the future. Come on.
This post was edited on 3/17/13 at 1:04 pm
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Posted on 3/17/13 at 11:46 am to Springfield XD
I think "brave new world" got it right. We now take pills for happiness
Posted on 3/17/13 at 11:57 am to Springfield XD
Enders Game. Written in 1985 and talks about how global message boards shape world politics
This post was edited on 3/17/13 at 11:59 am
Posted on 3/17/13 at 12:59 pm to Springfield XD
Fringe - their 2036 is spot on imo
Posted on 3/17/13 at 1:13 pm to Springfield XD
Snow Crash - Not all that accurate overall but it more or less created the term "avatar" as is used by the internet. Also, it had a program called "Earth" that was remarkably similar to Google Earth and almost certainly the reason they chose that name. Neal Stephenson was well ahead of the curve when writing about the internet.
Posted on 3/17/13 at 3:21 pm to Springfield XD
In many ways the power of computers is consistently underestimated. Our computers do about as much or more as any computer from a 1960's or 70's sci-fi show set hundreds of years in the future. Think of the Enterprise computer on TOS. Yeah, it talked but it was slow and had many useless flashing lights. 
Speaking of TOS, their communicators aren't as useful as our cell phones.
Speaking of TOS, their communicators aren't as useful as our cell phones.
Posted on 3/17/13 at 7:32 pm to Springfield XD
Gattica is pretty plausible. Genetic engineering "God Babies" and such.
Shutting my own whore mouth as I type but Escape from NY was kind of silly, but I still consider Snake Plissken among the all-time badasses.
Anyone remember Looker? Although a pretty marginal movie, the plot was interesting. Basically an evil ad firm digitizing perfect models to create perfect commercials and brainzap erryone into buying their client's sh#t.
Shutting my own whore mouth as I type but Escape from NY was kind of silly, but I still consider Snake Plissken among the all-time badasses.
Anyone remember Looker? Although a pretty marginal movie, the plot was interesting. Basically an evil ad firm digitizing perfect models to create perfect commercials and brainzap erryone into buying their client's sh#t.
This post was edited on 3/17/13 at 7:39 pm
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