In your opinion, what sci-fi story do you think will be the most accurate for our future?

[RandV80]

Yah i cut it wrong sorry

I do realize its a common misconception that war is fought over resources, one i used to share, but its just not supported by data. War is usually fought for surprisingly silly or mundane reasons. Things like i dont like communism so im gonna pop off to vietnam and kill me some communists, or we dont like you mailian villagers and your attempts at democracy, plus we have guns so we're going to just kill you.

Theres kind of an obscene amount of data on war, but id refer to the book:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Better_Angels_of_Our_Nature
It provides excellent citation and a fairly concise and uplifting explanation as to why things are getting better.

Also you might be interested in http://overpopulationisamyth.com/ as a way of uplifting your outlook of the future

Yeah I like to be optimistic about this sort of thing. The way people look at greed in a 'what can you do?' manner, seems like it could be true of violence throughout most of human history. Yeah there is still the occasional war going on in the world and many of the poorer regions in the world live under violence, but look at our Western society and compare it to say a time when vikings were sailing around raping and pillaging everywhere and all the other violent characters and petty wars going on with armies consisting heavily of peasant levies. From where we were to where we come today in regards to violence, seems like roughly the same distance to where we are with greed today vs humanities future depicted in Star Trek.

Although maybe someone else has brought this up, but it's worth pointing out that in regards to Stark Trek lore things had gotten much worse before they got much better. You can fit a Deus Ex like future into hat timeline, where humanity was on a downward spiral leading to a Mad Max or Fallout future, but then someone invented the warp drive, the Vulcan's made contact, and humanity united and improved for the better.

 

[Dangit2019]

Looper.

Let's face it, this infrastructure isn't going to look pretty forever.

 

[Mikejames]

Firefly.

No aliens, selectively advancing civilizations with disparate unity, and colonial expansion that never ends clean-cut.

 

[KoudelkaMorgan]

I would say that Water World may end up being most accurate, but I still hope its more like Ghost in the Shell, Cowboy Bebop, or Firefly.

I'd settle for Adventure Time. I wonder how many people that don't watch it know that it takes place in a horribly mutated post nuclear war planet Earth. Its pretty grim, but at least we'd have Rainicorns.