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OP, are you a simpleton? You actually expect hoverboards/cars? You expect the laws of physics to suddenly change some time soon? As for thumbprint recognition, it has existed for 20 years.
OTOH, literature has gotten it pretty much right. A cross between Brave New World and 1984 describes a lot of the world as it is, and certainly as it is soon to be.
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Your post was a little general to me but I get what you're after
But there's many reasons why those movies can be proven wrong about the future, distant or not.
Jury's still out on that one. No year is specified. Same with eXistenZ.
That can't be the only criteria. We haven't yet hit the years in which Alien and Aliens are meant to take place, but I'm pretty sure that even if we are on spaceships going from planet to planet by that time, the on-board computer isn't going to look like ENIAC and have 10-inch monochrome monitors.
1984 was dead-wrong on Newspeak and its ability to control the population though. Chomsky destroyed the Sapir-Whorf conjecture that claimed one's thought was dependent on his natural language.
As for us one day manning giant inter-planetary or interstellar spaceships, that will take a breakthrough in energy technology that seems virtually impossible. We'd have to discover how to safely harness nuclear fusion, and although the ITER project is optomisitic about that, I'm not.
Texting language has some similarities with Newspeak, as does a lot of the stuff that gets posted on message boards!However, as far as mind control, you are right.
Orwell was dead on about DoubleThink which is clearly employed by the PR and media industries, on behalf of anyone with a bit of power/money, without anyone raising an eyebrow.
And many of Huxley's ideas have been borne out, particularly the growth of genetic engineering (which, like it or not, is heading in the direction of eugenics for the rich) and soma (look around - our economies are founded on feeding luxury to the masses to divert attention from what's really going on in the world).
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Most of the technology in BTTF II, including hoverboards, already exsists in Japan. It's just going to take a few years to make it to the states.
Are you a simpleton? I'm not advocating that the technology should be around. I'm simply stating that the movies got it wrong just in general. technology in general has changed from what you thought was gonna be available in the future.
Prime examples, FMVs and video-phones. I remember in the early 90s seeing video phones that let you see the person you talk to and thinking god damn in 2010 we'll probably have that in every house! Now you can see who you're talking to!
In fact, quite the opposite has happened, now everyone has a phone/cell phone but the only way we communicate is through texts, if anything we've moved back a step as far as how close we want to be to communicate. We don't even want to hear each others voice, just words on a screen.
Yeah but at least in the cases I'm describing, we've all been alive to see it. The Matrix takes place in 2199 and none of us will be alive to know whether it is possible or not.
Same with Alien/Aliens. Or like Futurama, nobody knows what it's gonna be like a thousand years from now, but we actually live close to the time periods of say Back To The Future II.
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America is the ing home of doublespeak! And soma rules your entire culture! Moron.
Oh really? The movies (fictional stories sold to make money) got it wrong!? What a revelation! Thanks for making my point.
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Gene Roddenberry gave himself a nice cushion with Star Trek.
No they got it wrong. I'm not saying they were ever going to get it right. You're taking this thread much too seriously than I intended it to be.
Sorry, Duff, was having a bad day. What I said still stands, but I didn't mean to annoy you.
As for you 4cc, get ed. You know nothing about my country as you have repeatedly proven, so just STFU. The internet filter is a misguided attempt to make the internet safer for kids, but it is such a bad idea that it has been widely opposed and I doubt it will ever happen.
And why would you assume I'm a supporter of the Australian government? Just like governments across the democratic world, they are populists who only ever do enough to get themselves re-elected, and I hope the all die horribly.
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