This world is turning out less like the movie Idiocracy and more like the series Continuum.

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Tbh it’s starting to look more like Altered Carbon, except the core tech is complete vaporware because eel-on-musk made it.

That, or CP2077.

IninewCrow

Not just that but the story also suggests that the US can fail so terribly while still functioning to be able to still host monster truck rallies and have a working water system that can pump millions of gallons of mountain dew

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The premise was that it was a gradual decline to that point though. There would have been millions of opportunities to right the ship up until that point. It's optimistic that at some point, at SOME point, people will decide to do what the smartest people think. But the movie is pretty pessimistic that there was entire generations that didn't ever do that even once.

OpenStars

The forerunners to these trends were observable even back then, and also, history repeats itself. Check out HG Wells Time Machine from 1895 (not 1985, actually 1895), and Animal Farm by George Orwell in 1945, or even Plato's Allegory of the Cave, written around 380 BCE.

The closer we get to the future, the higher the resolution of the prediction - using our exact words & phrases like "social media" - but it is eerie how accurate those hundreds to thousands of years old works are as well.

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It's on Prime now. Give it a watch.

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I dunno if my politics have changed or my recollection of the show is just hazy, but my first reaction reading the synopsis on IMDb is "Wait, Kiera was a cop?" These days I would certainly be rooting for the "terrorists". Maybe it was about her learning the truth? Methinks I need to rewatch.

Jo Miran

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Her views change over time and also with what happens to her.
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I still think Infinite Jest is in pole position:

unqualified populist US president
canada (and mexico?) subjugated to the US
subsidised time (selling everything including the calendar to the highest bidder)
catapulting garbage into giant superfund sites

snooggums

Seriously there are so many parallels to real life. This was made in 2012. A bit ahead of its time.

Like with most movies and books that seem ahead of their time because they 'predict the future', the show was based on an existing trend that was happening and they accurately predicted the obvious outcome. That isn't a criticism of their artistic ability, just pointing out that we were well on this path back in 2012 and the show happened to highlight that trend.

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you see all these trends... and are still paying for Prime?

Hemingways_Shotgun

It was a pretty good show that sadly got forgotten. But yes, on my second rewatch recently (In Canada at least it's also on Tubi for free...) I was immediately with Liber8. They are the protagonists. And I think that was kind of the point of the show by the end.

Hemingways_Shotgun

Canadian Sci-Fi starring Roger Cross

That made me laugh out loud because it's so damn true.

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It's also not how genetics works. Smart people don't only have smart children and dumb people don't only have dumb children.

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The eugenics component of the movie is gross, no wonder I fail to remember it.

JackGreenEarth

People evolved from ape-like predecessors. Would you say the children of a predecessor and the children of a modern human are equally likely to be of a similar intelligence?

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Actually I'm using my dad's account. But yeah I still pay for Netflix and Hulu. Anything that isn't available anywhere though I'll go to the seas.

Ech

Actually, it's more like Revelations from the Bible. Trump is the devil, corporations are the horsemen, chatgpt is the mark of the beast and israel is in conflict. It's all right there!

Now if that made you scoff or roll your eyes, realize that conflating our real, actual lives with fiction is just as useful. It's entertainment, not prophecy. Can we just fucking stop already?

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The apes figured out how to make tools out of stone. They knew how to make fire and knew which plants they could and couldn't eat. People today aren't smarter than their ancestors because they have access to sophisticated tech.

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