Elder millennial here. I knew I was in an earth destroying dystopia the entire time.
Terminator (1984), Terminator 2 (1991), and The Matrix (1999) have entered the chat…
Don’t forget Mad Max
Soylent Green. Alphaville. Logan’s Run. A Clockwork Orange.
Planet of the Apes.
Spoiler for Planet of the Apes
Terminator: “War is inevitable.”
Terminator 2: “Actually, maybe not.”
Terminator 3: “Oh yeah, never mind, there it is.”
Me putting the 3rd in to rewatch if it was that bad:
True Names (1981), Software (1982), Neuromancer (1984), Hardwired (1986), Wetware (1988)
Cyberpunk is lowlife and high tech. It’s completely dystopian. The early 1980s was the height of the Cold War with Reagan in power. People were not optimistic about the future in the 1980s, they were just hoping that it wouldn’t end in a nuclear war.
That last example is from the original Fallout game, which came out in the late 90s, not the 2020s.
I guess there’s some solace or hope to be found in the fact that all the previous predictions weren’t accurate?
I do miss feeling optimistic about the future
You’re just in the wrong country, aligned with the wrong set of politics, speaking the wrong language.
The future isn’t American anymore. The future is Mexican and Brazilian. The future is African. The future is Chinese.
Doubtful. Climate change as well as its economic impact will affect most of these areas especially hard
If the rich end up in doomsday bunkers while the rest of us have to deal with the shit world they ruined for the rest of us, we better make it our mission to… plug any holes we find, if you know what I mean. Not suggesting violence that could get me banned or whatever, just make sure that the outside air don’t get in. Public service.
Not suggesting violence that could get me banned or whatever, just make sure that the outside air don’t get in.
this is Lemmy, nobody cares.
when the Apocalypse happens, and all the rich Nazis go down into their bunkers I’m going to become Lee Marvin, Charles Bronson, Jim Brown from The Dirty Dozen. I’ll pour gasoline down the air vents and then start chucking grenades down them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdWdqZwC_bc
killing Nazis is hard work, but it’s honest work.
Christ that movie didn’t hold up
Oh hey! It’s me! I’m people in the 2020s!!
This is exactly what those who are broadly portrayed as visionaries want.
Unfortunately, it never seems to have dawned on the general public that those who market themselves this way were never the visionaries.
Take Dennis Ritchie, for example, one of the original creators of C, who died just days before Steve Jobs: The media went out of their way to emphasize what a loss humanity had suffered, while failing to acknowledge that someone had died to whom humanity owes a great deal. They celebrated only the greedy capitalist who knew how to market a technology, but not at all the rather humble man who made a tremendous contribution without enriching himself at the expense of the common good.
That was a long time ago, but today’s world is still exactly the same - it even got way worse from there: no recognition for those who actually achieve great things, but only for those who step into the spotlight and thus appear to be the ones to whom humanity owes something.
In my view, this encapsulates everything one needs to know about our time—the absurdity of charlatans desperately wanting to be billionaires or even trillionaires.
This attitude has nothing to do with the real world, and it is a hubris that no halfway decent person would ever presume to have—yet humanity is ruled by exactly these megalomaniacal monsters because it collectively allows it.
So we are ruled by the worst that humanity has to offer—by unscrupulous opportunists who live only for themselves, have no sense of community, and have set up a system of undeserved triumph in such a way that only their own despicable kind can follow them.
It is a system that is directed against humanity itself.
I’d love a site full of sources of the real inventors of shit I can shove into the faces of people who think fucking musk is actual iron man 🙄🙄🙄🙄 the disinformation is so strong.
I’m afraid that’s just as hard—if not impossible—as figuring out which artists created all those iconic Disney characters. That’s just how soulless corporations are.
I could never handle building a site like that myself because just doing the research would be so absolutely depressing.
These are all just the optimist’s dream. Following that, you could imagine “how people in the 2020’s see the future:” and then put the AI techno-optimist view of a post-work utopia where robots do our bidding.
Don’t worry, every generation has had the edgelord who thinks their conception of the future is the dystopian one
