Flying cars, off world travel, replicants ... don't look at what Blade Runner got wrong, look at what it got right ... climate change, power mad ultra elite, digital billboards, personally targeted advertising, speaking to computers, iris recognition and a dystopian future.
X : What is the most prophetic Sci-Fi film?
Me : Tough one. Short term is Elysium with Bugatti Spaceships and a power mad Elite supported by slave labour. In the long term it has to be Wall-E i.e. VCs in space in a neoliberal heaven and the planet reduced to garbage, mostly dead.
Me : Tough one. Short term is Elysium with Bugatti Spaceships and a power mad Elite supported by slave labour. In the long term it has to be Wall-E i.e. VCs in space in a neoliberal heaven and the planet reduced to garbage, mostly dead.
X : What about Star Trek?
Me : A product of another era, the 1960s. This was pre the dominance of Friedmanism and the rise of the ideology of Ayn Rand. Different time, different path. You'd have to dismantle neoliberalism if you want to go back to that.
Me : A product of another era, the 1960s. This was pre the dominance of Friedmanism and the rise of the ideology of Ayn Rand. Different time, different path. You'd have to dismantle neoliberalism if you want to go back to that.
... Science Fiction films are usually a reflector, a mirror of the current social and technological systems rolled forward to some future point along the current path. Today, you need to think along the lines of the Libertarian Police Department - newyorker.com/humor/daily-sh…
