"Which was more near to the future reality?" Topic

In your opinion and knowledge which was the SF serie or movie most near to our real future?.

Which you consider that "touch" nearly how thing would going on?.

I vote for Firefly (no alliens there).

Amicalement
Armand

Max Headroom.

postman

We're getting dangerously close to Pohl's "Merchant War".

Survivors/28 Days.

You're all just talking batteries..it's the matrix.

Although 2000AD seems like a good option,So I vote Judge dredd until I get offered the Morpheus pills.

Soylent Green

Why all th ehatred for non-human sentients these days?

Is it just the contrary nature of the public that when scientific opinion swings in the direction of their existence, the laity immediately say the opposite? And vice versa when scientific opinion changes ? Considering we have yet to get back to the moon ( And may have to be Chinese to do it ), it seems very shortsighted to rule it out.

As for a future that has BECOME real, I'm thinking we are a lot like Brunners "Stand On Zanzibar" with a slightly less pessimistic outlook for the environment.

Robocop.

Zardoz !

UFO – there are aliens, but no interplanetary space travel for humans, and the tech could be done now.

Soylent Green, Gattaca, Blade Runner, or Mad Max depending on where you live.

Very much Gattaca or maybe V for Vendetta.

Jeff

In another six days, the reimagined Battlestar Galactica. But I've said too much.

mens in black … here they come again but be assure that nothing has ever happened else it must be that every one forgot about it …

never game with one of those especialy if they aren't fair play otherwise you won't remember how you forgot and forgive your strategie before the end of play while it was brillant and successfull … humm yes there was a sudden flash and your opponent wear sun glasses to be sure you ain't an alien .

Minority Report – for the way that you can be tracked. Precog is utter nonsense, walking through a shopping mall with ads blaring at you via your phone, PDA and through talking billboards – we're basically there already.

blade runner ,
Roller Ball …corporations run everything …and you need a privledge card .

Blade Runner, Gattaca, or both.

We're on a long slide to oblivion.

"The Road" most likely, or with any luck "1984"

1984.

Or Brazil.

Star Wars!

I wish!

:)

Blade Runner

Is our best case scenario.

Mike "Bunkermeister" Creek
bunkermeister.blogspot.com

Johnny Mnemonic. Of course, William Gibson basically invented the future, we just changed a few terms and didn't pay him royalties.

Another vote for Soylent Green. --- I edited this out because it sounded more like politics than the history I meant to share, sorry ---Are you hungry for a cracker?

Looking back, Escape from LA was close to the mark, too. Except the Big Quakes haven't hit LA. Yet.

The Stargate Series … 3 now … but they are real near future ….

'Threads' (1984) sadly without soviets and hopefully 'Mad Max' a few years later.
First tabula rasa and then restart the fun again.

In your opinion and knowledge which was the SF serie or movie most near to our real future?.

Which you consider that "touch" nearly how thing would going on?.

I vote for Firefly (no alliens there).

That's the Reconstruction-era American South IN SPAAACE! How is that anything like our present, never mind our future? It's got magical spaceship drives and lightning-quick terraforming. It might as well have rubber-forehead aliens, it wouldn't make it any less fantastical.

Stargazy on Zummerdown
Perhaps not too near and the monks radios would have to be replaced by the Internet but all the rest seems probable.

x42

The Book of Eli or Blade Runner

Emmanuel in space

Aliens. Except for the interstellar travel, most of the technology in the movie was actually inferior to the then-current state of the art.
-Kle.

'The Sheep Look Up' by John Brunner. Almost word for word. OK, its a book not a film.

Otherwise, Clockwork Orange.

V for Vendetta
Blade Runner
The Postman
The Warzone Chronicles (in as much as Corporate rule)

Do you find it odd that most of the responses are dire?

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For a bit of levity…

TANK GIRL

Aliens. Except for the interstellar travel, most of the technology in the movie was actually inferior to the then-current state of the art.

So, not much like the future, then.

You forgot their expertise in robotics, artificial intelligence, terraformation, cryonic freezing (and reanimation), implied genetic engineering and the powerloader.

Death Race…

The first few chapters of Brave New World.

Absolutely Robocop. Detroit is in such poor shape I expect OCP to show up any day!

We're currently in a Rollerball society, heading rapidly towards 1984. We'll hit Blade Runner if we're very, very lucky; Mad Max or Book of Eli if we're not.

Do you find it odd that most of the responses are dire?

When we as a society stopped taking the dystopian writers seriously, the old phrase about "those who do not learn from history…" became applicable.

What is so much more dire than at any time in our past?

And since we are only using TV and Movies, I'll go with Serenity.

Thanks,

Pat

Blade Runner and Soldier

The background history of Heavy Gear, which would work out like the video game Battlefield 2142.

It was not all dire .Everything was wonderful but we could not accept it ,so the machines reprogrammed the matrix.
We just see our future as a bit glum now becuase it is more acceptable…..

Hopeful towards firefly…. not the details, but the basic ideas.

1984 or Brazil is unfortunately more likely.

Blade Runner…but at least it's not raining all the time yet.

GK Chesterton wrote some excellent rather dystopian novels, but I don't think they could be considered sci-fi.

Logans Run where everyone over 30 was dead (or might as well have been!)

Oh wait…..

Back from the 60s – The Invaders

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