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Happy Back to the Future Day!
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RE: Happy Back to the Future Day!
(October 21, 2015 at 6:46 pm)Aroura Wrote: So, what did you expect out of the year 2015 back when you were a kid?  Has it met your expectations?

Not at all. And I was already well into my twens when it came out. I grew up with 60ies and 70ies film predictions. The only thing coming true were mobile phones. But you didn't have to be a prophet to predict that in 1989. It was a cooler idea with the Star Trek communicators of the 60ies.
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#12
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It always annoys me when people talk about whether sci-fi gets it "right" about the future, or poke fun when it gets it "wrong". I think it was Asimov who said that the job of the science fiction writer isn't to predict the future, but to prevent it.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist.  This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair.  Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second.  That means there's a situation vacant.'
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#13
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As far as preventing goes, it didn't work out so well for George Orwell.
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That movie didn't predict anything. Watch enough si fi movies and TV prior and after you see similar motifs. This is the same BS I get from Star Trek fans. Not even the "Transporter" is original to that show. I saw a much older si fi black and white B movie where they used the TV static snow dissolve. Si fi shows and movies don't invent anything. The writers and producers get their stories by competing. The real scientists are the inventors. A show or movie being popular does not make it a lab. Si fi fans suffer from the same selection bias and sample rate error as theists.
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(October 23, 2015 at 10:16 am)abaris Wrote: As far as preventing goes, it didn't work out so well for George Orwell.

He extrapolated current trends in the Soviet Union for a cautionary tale about the loss of civil liberties and abuses of executive power. It took cunts like Reagan and Thatcher to use it as an instruction manual. And cunts at Channel 4 to actually give us Big Brother. Hat Trick's Room 101 was ok though.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist.  This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair.  Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second.  That means there's a situation vacant.'
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Really, don't take it so seriously. It's a comedy that also happens to be a sci-fi. It's meant to be a lighthearted, fun, and entertaining view of the future, no an accurate or inaccurate one.
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#17
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The important thing is that those movies kick fucking ass.
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#18
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Here I am thinking Bill and Ted's excellent adventure was a documentary!
No God, No fear.
Know God, Know fear.
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#19
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We're collectively dumber. Companies are marketing contraptions with two wheels touching the ground as hover boards.
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#20
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I found it totally annoying that every other fb post mentioned this, TBH. Tongue
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