[Fluff time] Movieland of yesterday, what did they get right, what did they miss, and what did they never see coming?

1984. electronic surveillance.

I’ve seen many concepts that were in Sci Fi,and became fairy accurate, real technology.

But usually you’re right. Little accuracy with the time frame.

H.G. Wells got soo much right so long ago.

This is 2016, which was the incept year for Roy Batty, Pris, and Zira from Blade Runner. We don’t have replicants (cyborgs), and we don’t have flying cars.

PD James’ The Children of Men predicted worldwide male infertility by 1995.

Of course that was dystopian fiction, not Science Fiction.

Both science fiction and speculative science tend to get the time scale off by massive amounts, usually assuming things will become advanced far too quickly. I know of almost zero accurate time predictions except for short-term things. Practically every future prediction has the date way off.

Unfortunately, some people seem to take the ideas from dystopian sci fi as good and/or necessary, unavoidable, or acceptable ideas.

1984 continues to be terrifyingly accurate and horrible, even if the time scale is off. Not only are we now expected to be under observation and tracking almost constantly from devices that we are supposed to think of as positive, but we have fake wars, fake news and fake governments up the wazzoo. Orwell didn’t even go far enough in some cases, thinking we’d need fake national wars, when it turns out people will even accept wars on abstract concepts (terror) and illegal substances (drugs).

I watched a movie yesterday, The Day After Tomorrow
I shall let you know Friday, but the forecast says sunny, so…

@filmfann This is 2016, which was the incept year for Roy Batty, Pris, and Zira from Blade Runner. We don’t have replicants (cyborgs), and we don’t have flying cars.
The funny thing is, when I was a child and reading all of the science periodicals I got the impressions we would have cyborgs or robots before clones, but with Dolly hitting the scene as well as other beings, I think if I lived long enough I would see a human clone before I seen any sentient machine.

@Zaku Unfortunately, some people seem to take the ideas from dystopian sci fi as good and/or necessary, unavoidable, or acceptable ideas.
Doesn’t Hollywood usually swing on one side or the other? Either the future will yield some utopian society where disease, hunger, wars, etc. has been done away with or you get some apocalypse like ”Water World”, ”The Postman”, ”Book of Eli”, etc. How often has there been a Sci-fi movie where it was more of the same just technically more advanced?

@Hypocrisy_Central I was thinking of people taking dystopian ideas positively for the real world.

But yes, sci fi does tend towards extremes, especially in low-sophistication media such as typical Hollywood films. There is much middle-ground between apocalypse/disaster and utopia, though, and planet-hopping sci fi tends to provide a lot of variety between worlds, even if the planets are often presented as very homogeneous.