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Which two movies do you think most accurately reflect the future

I see a future world that looks like Ghost in the Shell - everything is grim, hopeless, and generically Asian - with a global political system that belongs in 1984.

Either that or it will be like Terminator. It certainly isn't going to look like Star Trek, or something else where humans have united to explore our universe. A weird eco-communist hybrid political system will sweep to power before then and destroy any chance we have of striving for greater things.

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everything is grim, hopeless, and generically Asian -

Yes this is exactly what AZN has foretold. She knows that Asians will be the superior race.

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If we define success as technological advancement and military conquest then yes, Asians are the dominant race. In WWII, Japan proved how Asian ideas about duty and dignity could defeat the Western view. We can write all the best books, have the happiest people, but if that means we're weak and don't have the stomach for war, we're at the mercy of those who are prepared to fight.

The only reason they lost was because they overstretched their supply lines and didn't command their navy effectively. That and the development of the nuke, of course.

China won't make those mistakes. We'd need another huge technological leap forward again, but I just can't see that happening while all our geniuses are being hoarded in Silicon Valley and told to focus on creating new ways to monitor and control us while filling our minds full of nonsense about gender pay gaps and communal bathrooms.

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Idiocracy

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Blade Runner or 12 Monkeys.

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Well, with the timeline depicted, Blade Runner’s has passed. It could however be a similar world left behind once all the anti-vaxxers get jettisoned into outer space.

The vaxxed then missed them and created replicants and in the process created more societal issues…

Norman! What did you put in my tea?

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I think Blade Runner assumed the continued domination of the west. If we look at the fact that China will be almost certainly the leader as we hit the robotic age, I really can't see that world being a reality. Blade Runner invites us to recognize that robots are simply mechanical people, with "souls". They're just like us. They deserve respect, dignity, and liberty. China, on the other hand, views humans as less than robots.

The future is going to be even more dystopian than Blade Runner.

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The Road

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Is there NO positive outlook for the future of earth and the human race….😱

Norman! What did you put in my tea?

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Elite Squad, but if I have to pick a sci-fi then Dredd. The Brazilification of the world.

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No chance. We've already moved beyond the fax machine and one big TV that everyone has to share.

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The Hunger Games and Blade Runner.

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Mad Max Road Runner

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I hope at least one of the movies is Starship Troopers. I'm ready to do my part and kill me some bugs!

I guess the other one could be Soylent Green. Aaah, utopia…Fighting alien bugs and eating dead people!

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when the Tesla bots become sentient we will know true terror

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I don't think humanity will make it far enough to create a superior being.

China will enslave us all before then, with genocide following soon after.

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Star Trek.

The echo-communist political hybrid system will sweep to power, uniting humanity and let us explore our universe and many other great things.

We are accountable to reality. To truth and goodness and beauty.

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I highly doubt soy juice is going to help us escape our solar system. And without a thriving, free enterprise, free thinking economy, where will the next Jobs, Musk, or even Einstein come from?

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We have pretty much caught up with 1984 and Brave New World, and are hell bent on eventually wiping out a good portion of mankind with the next devastating global war.

A nuclear conflagration would result in Threads, followed by The Road and probably On The Beach; a more conventional war would reduce most of the planet to Mad Max and The World, The Flesh and the Devil.

And This, Too, Shall Pass Away

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Get drunk and enjoy yourself.

Just because I'm not on THEIR side, doesn't mean I'm on YOURS.

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On The Beach, or Logan's Run.

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The Time Machine (1960) with the world destroyed by nuclear war and civilization annihilated, or 12 Monkeys, a world ravaged by a super virus. Humanity will destroy itself one way or another.

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History will know that civilization was destroyed by the west choosing feelings over facts. Even the ancient Babylonians knew that the biggest danger to humanity was its emotional nature. Civilization is what happens when humans control their emotions and act rationally.

The process began with the invention of the internet. As we witness here, on an hourly basis, so many people simply cannot think with their brain, and choose to let their emotions take the lead.

Even intelligent people like Magnetic Monopole seem unable to be civil. The internet should be an extension of our actual selves, yet it somehow reduces the vast majority to an angry, bitter, overly sensitive mess. Maybe that's who most people are? Maybe when out in the real world, these people wear a mask? It's irrelevant though. Policy is now being made based on what a swarm of Twitter users chant.

That emotion led thinking is now spreading around the world at lightening pace. Rational thought can't compete. People who think rationally don't hit social media to freak out about something. Inexplicably we're harvesting this data as if it means something, and acting on it as if that will somehow calm every down, not realizing that as we address one issue, another will simply spring up somewhere else. Instead of rightly dismissing it as the nonsense it is, we've decided to engage with it, leading to a sort of weird, whack-a-mole style game. We've choosen to value people's emotions over and above rational thought, and there's only one way this ends. Unfortunately it's a game everyone loses.

So, tragically, as our lives increasingly make use of technology, and migrate online, we ironically seem to be moving further away from civilization.

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Even intelligent people like Magnetic Monopole seem unable to be civil. The internet should be an extension of our actual selves, yet it somehow reduces the vast majority to an angry, bitter, overly sensitive mess. Maybe that's who most people are? Maybe when out in the real world, these people wear a mask?
There was a study about this released recently:
Why are online discussions about politics experienced as more hostile than offline discussions? A popular answer builds on the argument that human psychology is tailored for face-to-face interaction and, accordingly, people’s behavior changes for the worse in impersonal online discussions. We provide the first theoretical formalization and empirical test of this explanation: the mismatch hypothesis. We argue that mismatches between human psychology and novel features of online communication environments could (a) change people’s behavior, (b) bias their perceptions and © create adverse selection effects. We leverage five cross-national representative surveys and online behavioral experiments (total N=7510) to test the mismatch hypothesis but find little to no evidence. Rather, we find that online political hostility reflects the behavior of individuals predisposed to be hostile in all (including offline) contexts. Yet, because their behavior is more likely to be witnessed on public online platforms, these are perceived to induce more hostility.
https://psyarxiv.com/hwb83/

They're just jerks.

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Thanks, that's really interesting.

So, despite being built to conduct discussion and debate irl, we're choosing to lend far more weight to the discussions we conduct online.

Madness.

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