It may be just me, but I think Sci-Fi writers must be awfully disappointed about where we are as a society. This popped into my head after watching "Jeopardy 1999" from a SNL skit from 1979. To be honest, it wasn't that funny (that's why I didn't post it), and the only things it predicted correctly was looser attitudes toward sex and Chevy Chase's non-existant post-SNL career. (Yeah, I'm not a fan of his).
Here's a list of disappointments:
1. Flying cars that run on garbage
2. Moonbases
3. Death Comets
4. Interstellar travel (not even at sub-light levels!)
5. Hot aliens
6. People used as food
7. Anything on Mars
8. Using the Sun to travel through time (And we still have whales! Take that Green Peace!)
9. Cyborgs
10. Ice Pirates
As you can see, we might as well not have running water. Isaac Asimov and Gene Roddenberry lived in vain from what I can tell. (L. Ron Hubbard, on the other hand, never died... he's off fighting aliens).
So, to help us get over the fact that we're hopelessly behind... here's some Sci-Fi for ya
And for something a little more upbeat...
Well...maybe we're not so bad off after all.
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
Brave New World?
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3 thoughts:
I couldn't see the clips you posted, but the rest was so true...
On the other hand, we're eerily close to Fahrenheit 451's seashell radios and TV walls...
(not to mention convenience C-sections and drug-deadened emotions...)
Hmmm...
(Julina)
I'd take death comets and people being eaten any day over the fact that 12-year-olds have cell phones, laptops seem to be on every teenager's list, and someday my own children will ask me if they can take their ipods to gym, as it's awfully boring to run miles looking at the world around them.
not a fan of scifi stuff. and thank goodness no cyborgs.
lucy is rocking out to my guitar gently weeps. :) and why would i have a strip pole??? really, joe, where is your mind???? (haha)
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