Strangelove wrote: ↑Wed Apr 15, 2020 6:33 pm
Megaterio Llamas wrote: ↑Wed Apr 15, 2020 6:11 pm
Strangelove wrote: ↑Wed Apr 15, 2020 4:23 pm
Idiocracy! Great movie.
That's what I keep hearing. Didn't see it myself, last one I saw was Tintin. I don't really see a lot of movies anymore.
Well to be honest, it's more of a toking movie.
Here's the intro:
Natural selection drives Devolution!
Hey, it's not actually a "great" movie.
If you wanna watch a great movie, watch Once Upon a Time in Hollywood!
I think I know you well enough now to know you'd love it.
They do a great job of recreating 1969.
Hell, you'd love it for the soundtrack alone Meg!
Ah, hyper-realistic predictive sci fi my favorite.
I'll check the other one out possibly too Strangelove but I couldn't help but notice the opening of the Buckaroos classic Buckaroo in the 'Unscannable!' clip
^^^just makes you wanna holler yee haw after a few cans of Old Style don't it.
*speaking of predictive sci fi this old John Brunner novel recently caught my attention, I'm thinking of ordering it.
Check out some of the stuff this guy predicted writing back in the sixties in his story set in 2010:
Stand on Zanzibar is that rarity among science fiction novels — it really made accurate predictions about the future. The book, published in 1969, is set in the year 2010, and this allows us to make a point-by-point comparison, and marvel at novelist John Brunner’s uncanny ability to anticipate the shape of the world to come. Indeed, his vision of the year 2010 even includes a popular leader named President Obomi — face it, Nate Silver himself couldn’t have done that back in 1969!
(1) Random acts of violence by crazy individuals, often taking place at schools, plague society in Stand on Zanzibar.
(2) The other major source of instability and violence comes from terrorists, who are now a major threat to U.S. interests, and even manage to attack buildings within the United States.
(3) Prices have increased sixfold between 1960 and 2010 because of inflation. (The actual increase in U.S. prices during that period was sevenfold, but Brunner was close.)
(4) The most powerful U.S. rival is no longer the Soviet Union, but China. However, much of the competition between the U.S. and Asia is played out in economics, trade, and technology instead of overt warfare.
(5) Europeans have formed a union of nations to improve their economic prospects and influence on world affairs. In international issues, Britain tends to side with the U.S., but other countries in Europe are often critical of U.S. initiatives.
(6) Africa still trails far behind the rest of the world in economic development, and Israel remains the epicenter of tensions in the Middle East.
(7) Although some people still get married, many in the younger generation now prefer short-term hookups without long-term commitment.
(8) Gay and bisexual lifestyles have gone mainstream, and pharmaceuticals to improve sexual performance are widely used (and even advertised in the media).
(9) Many decades of affirmative action have brought blacks into positions of power, but racial tensions still simmer throughout society.
(10) Motor vehicles increasingly run on electric fuel cells. Honda (primarily known as a motorcycle manufacturers when Brunner wrote his book) is a major supplier, along with General Motors.
(11) Yet Detroit has not prospered, and is almost a ghost town because of all the shuttered factories. However. a new kind of music — with an uncanny resemblance to the actual Detroit techno movement of the 1990s — has sprung up in the city.
(12) TV news channels have now gone global via satellite.
(13) TiVo-type systems allow people to view TV programs according to their own schedule.
(14) Inflight entertainment systems on planes now include video programs and news accessible on individual screens at each seat.
(15) People rely on avatars to represent themselves on video screens — Brunner calls these images, which either can look like you or take on another appearance you select — “Mr. and Mrs. Everywhere.”
(16) Computer documents are generated with laser printers.
(17) A social and political backlash has marginalized tobacco, but marijuana has been decriminalized.
read more here:
http://www.themillions.com/2013/03/the-w...t-day.html
