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I pessimistically see a much worse future. A kind of cross between: - Orwell's 1984 - Aldus Huxley's Brave New World - Philip K. Dick's Minority Report - An
by junto 13y ago
I pessimistically see a much worse future. A kind of cross between:
- Orwell's 1984
- Aldus Huxley's Brave New World
- Philip K. Dick's Minority Report
- Andrew Niccol's Gattica
- a3n 13y agoI see a much more mundane dystopia, where almost no progress happens anymore, as the US Congress clearly intends.
- userulluipeste 13y agoBoth "Brave New World" and "Gattica" have as one of their underlying ideas the genes cultivation, which basically expands the general capabilities of the humankind. That might be a bit dramatic on an individual level (as it is depicted in "Gattica"), but overall why is that "a much worse future"?
- BerislavLopac 13y agoYou forgot Idiocracy.
- quesera 13y agoPedantry, but hopefully interesting: Gattaca is spelled with two A's. The letters in the word are from DNA base pairs: guanine, thymine, adenosine, and cytosine. Attica is a part of ancient Greece. Also a prison in New York. Not sure which reference the creator of Gattaca intended. Maybe both.