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Sat Jun-28-08 04:21 PM
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Science fiction who's time has come and gone. |
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Can you think of a sci-fi movie or TV show or novel that was set in the future but that time has come and gone? Of course it's predictions did not come to fruition. For instance Space 1999, uhhh yeah, sorry, no moon bases yet. Or just any sci -fi that time has bypassed.
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Sat Jun-28-08 04:23 PM
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1. I believe Judgement Day in Terminator 1 and 2 was 1997 |
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Blade Runner has another 11 years to go. What with Bush, we'll at least have the shitty weather
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Sat Jun-28-08 04:27 PM
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the Chinese own us, so that part is coming true also. Cheap plastic everywhere. I'm still waiting for my basic pleasure model robot.
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Sat Jun-28-08 04:25 PM
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Sure, in 1997 Manhattan was a hell hole, but it wasn't a prison colony.
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Sat Jun-28-08 04:31 PM
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but with all these recent ICE raids-we risk the Guantanamization (a word I would like added to our lexicon) of our cities.
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Sat Jun-28-08 04:39 PM
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5. "Doctor Who" (the 2005 revamp) |
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It always places everything in modern day (circa same-year-it-was-filmed-in) Earth. So it's already come and gone.
But to talk about sci-fi in general:
I miss the days when sci-fi claimed "In 1999, we'd have moonbases and cool things!"
Since the emos took over, sci-fi now claims "We're gonna DIEEEEEEEE! And I'm having a bad hair day to boot." Sodding wankers.
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Sat Jun-28-08 04:40 PM
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Of course, we are getting closer to the "Big Brother" of that novel thanks to the last eight years...
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Sat Jun-28-08 04:52 PM
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7. Actually, I think Mr Orwell's prediction did come true. |
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Sat Jun-28-08 04:54 PM
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If it had, places like DU would not exist because not enough people would think that way...
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Sat Jun-28-08 07:09 PM
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11. And we'd all be arrested for posting here. |
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No recreational sex allowed, either!
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Sat Jun-28-08 04:52 PM
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8. Virtually all the "modern" SF of the 1940s... |
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...they predicted a variety of futures...none of which happened, though--to be fair--Heinlein's "Future History" was fairly accurate in its broad themes--and he predicted a religious dictatorship in the early 21st century...:scared:
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Sat Jun-28-08 04:56 PM
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No space hotels, no archeological digs on the Moon, no missions to the gas giants.
Heck, we don't even have Pan Am anymore, except as a right-wing holding company for a third-string railroad and a shoddy charter airline.
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Sat Jun-28-08 09:29 PM
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12. 2010's comin' up in a couple of years |
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and we're not about to have a second trip to Jupiter by then. :P
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Sat Jun-28-08 09:55 PM
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Sat Jun-28-08 10:00 PM
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I remember 2000 pretty well, and I don't remember any crazy government sponsored cross country car races where the racers were given points for running down pedestrians. The US was still the US too, not the United Provinces. We weren't at war with France either.
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Sun Jun-29-08 12:34 AM
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16. Did you watch that last night, too? |
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I found it surprisingly enjoyable...
"It's a hand grenade." :rofl:
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Sun Jun-29-08 12:39 AM
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I didn't know whether to take it as absurdity, a dark vision of the future, or something a couple of guys doing a lot a acid came up with.
It was entertaining though... and had a lot of nudity.
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Sun Jun-29-08 12:41 AM
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19. I've got that film all but memorized |
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A good kill! A clean kill! Once again, Machine Gun Joe VeTurbo has scored the first points!
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Sat Jun-28-08 11:35 PM
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15. "The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress" by Heinlein |
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Written in the sixties, not sure what timeline it was supposed to depict. When the main computer fails at the bank on the moon, the tellers use abacuses (abacii?), because of course the PC and the pocket calculator weren't invented yet.
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