A combination of Snow Crash and Idiocracy
Might as well throw some Terminator and ‘The Machine Stops’ in there.
V for Vendetta
I do believe that a lot of aspects of The Ministry for the Future by K.S. Robinson have chances of becoming true.
The deadly heatwave in south Asia, governments going rogue and playing with geo engineering on their own, climate refugee camps and the general sense of too little too late.
But the book is fairly optimistic, so hopefully, people of the world getting together and accepting a new paradigm will come to be true.
1984
Been reading Corey Doctorow lately and catch myself thinking, “Aw c’mon! That’s not how it works!” And then remember, he’s writing about the near future.
The Water Knife by Paolo Baccigalupi is pretty on the nose for the near future of the southern US
It thought that Vegas was an abomination, a testament to the vanity of mankind but that book made me understand that Phoenix has twice as many people, is bigger though sure, is a little wetter on average and should hold that title.
How is this one of the cheapest cities to live in in the US? Why are we moving the micro chip industry there?
As an American I’d absolutely say Idiocracy, but that’s just my little corner of humanity.
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.
"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.
A combination of all the worst bits of the worst ones
The Road.
Penultimate Truth. Predicted containing the cattle using fear of something that doesn’t even exist in reality.
Blade Runner
I don’t know about closest, but definitely most likely, Tank Girl. Basically, water and power will be extreme scarcities for the majority and a corporation that bottles up the water to keep it from becoming free through rain and owns all of central power grid will be the effective government. It will take a few more decades for the water to get bottled up by Nestlé, et al., and the water infrastructure to fail in more cities. And then the fossil fuel industry to run out of resources and collapse and thus leave only the few nuclear reactors as the only major power sources, without renewables investment, which can be grabbed by the water owners by saying they need the power to collect the water bottles and they need to “secure” the dangerous reactors with the military hardware they collected to protect “their” water sources from protesters and poor people over the years.
The Simpsons
