Comment on Why Does So Much New Technology Feel Inspired by Dystopian Sci-Fi Movies?
Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Because well written dystopian sci-fi is based on real human flaws (but projected into a speculative future).
I think the article is giving the oligarchs/criminals too much credit.
NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 6 days ago
The “speculative” part being massive.
Depending on what brand phone you buy, you either think apple copied the Star Trek communicator or Star Trek copied apple. But the reality is that the communicator was really just a logical extension of the telephone (also so are cell phones but…). And it played such a major role since the 60s were really when people began moving really far away from their families for work or Life and audiences could relate to relying on their phones to keep in touch. And then it is just a logical extension of what happens if you are always in touch… and then what happens when you aren’t?
In a lot of ways? It is less that the techbros see the torture nexus and want to make their own and more that the torture nexus represents a logical progression of society and technology that we will reach if ethics and “common sense” fails and… welcome to the 21st century.