"Lack of respect, wrong attitude, failure to obey authority. The Farm, immediately. - death sentence in Ellison’s book ‘A Boy and His Dog’
Awesome book. The whole series was good, except the last one.
Penultimate Truth. Predicted containing the cattle using fear of something that doesn’t even exist in reality.
Dune.
Not the cool parts, the Butlerian Jihad.
I’d have gone with WH40Ks war with the men of iron but there’s absolutely no chance we reach golden age of technology levels before we fuck ourselves.
Blade Runner
People are talking about really wonderful interesting things, but I can’t even choose between those I’m thinking about.
Star Wars EU - because that’s what I see around. Lots of stupidity, evil and decay, but in the end there’s the sky and the life with all its beauty. The old part of it, which mostly was happening after Empire’s institution while the rebels were not something close to victory in anyone’s opinion.
Vacuum Flowers - that’s the “worse is better” evolutionary optimism. That it will all become only worse, there’s no good defeating evil, we will all die, but - life finds a way, humanity finds a way, and so on. It will go on.
Heinlein’s Door into Summer - some parts are too much like our reality.
Actually I think all 3 have the same general idea, I just can’t quite catch it.
Funny, I’d have said we’re closer to the new Star Wars cinematic trilogy than the EU.
You think you’ve won, then a few years later, oh look, fascism is back and it’s killing people in job lots again.
A combination of all the worst bits of the worst ones
You better start believing in cyberpunk dystopia, Miss Turner. You’re in one!
Not sure which one. But we already pretty much check all the boxes of cyberpunk.
I think we’re in the boring version of Shadowrun’s cyberpunk universe. Take out the magic, take out the idea that people perform runs doing vigilante tasks and take out the goblinifcation (so no orks/trolls) and no other races. But the idea of megacorps getting bigger and bigger while everything decays around us with escalating costs, yeah that part is real.
It’s the shittiest form of cyberpunk.
We have cybernetic implants! But they’re only for people who need them or are being headed up by a dipshit (Elon’s Neuralink)…
We have AI! But it’s just a glorified chat bot and it’s not even necessarily good at even that…
We keep having gnarly pandemics of new diseases.
The mega corporations are exactly what you expect.
The quality of life is exactly as you expect, except even the best possible quality you could get if you were rich also kinda fucking sucks compared to fiction (can’t even live on Mars forever in a Matrix connected blow job machine IRL)…
The dystopia would be more bearable if I could become a cybernetic superman on Mars. Just sayin’.
You expected to be the main character, but you’ve just realized you’re just one of many NPCs in a cyberpunk reality, just trying yo get by, but getting screwed at every turn by corporations, governments and fate.
Well said! I’m looking forward to the solarpunk/biopunk future nowadays because of… all that
Damnit, I managed to trip into a Shadowrun campaign and I didn’t even roll a Dwarf.
I always thought CEOs being greedy mythical dragons that compulsively hoard riches because it’s their nature, to be a brilliantly plausible fantasy element.
At this point it almost feels like a rational explanation for their inhuman behavior.
On this track that’s probably the only fantasy element we’d get LOL.
Her.
Given that we’ve already had a few suicides caused by (or at least exacerbated by) LLM chatbots, I think we’re already there.
Idiocracy but mixed with the Neuromancer series and 1984.
Add a dash of « The Handmaid’s Tale »
More of a glug.
As an American I’d absolutely say Idiocracy, but that’s just my little corner of humanity.
The Road.
Price of obsidian gonna skyrocket.
Beat me to it!
V for Vendetta
I like your optimism
L for Luigi?
I could see the Golgafrinchan telephone sanitizer situation coming to pass.
The Simpsons
Idiocracy/Dont look up/1984/Judge Dredd
My bets on Robocop style corporate dictatorship until terminator style annihilation occurs.
Star Trek was never on the cards.
Actually, star trek might be. In their lore, things got a lot worse before they got better.
World War 3 began in 2026 according to TNG, we’re close!
In the aftermath, the world became an irradiated apocalyptic hellhole for almost a century, most cities destroyed and governments collapsed. I’d say we’re well on our way to that state, question is whether or not we emerge better on the other side. I’d almost be okay with that if there was some assurance that humanity would come out as Star Trek afterwards.
