Poll: Dystopian futures.

[cthulhu257]

i think idiocracy is a certainty, but i think with the new breakthroughs in science, eventually things like AIDS and cancer will be a thing of the past....and because of this, inflation will rape the earth. since inflation is good for no one, chances are we could see some government sanctioned 'epidemics' on our hands, like the crack epidemic ( not saying it was definitely the government, but they had to do something with all that crack they confiscated) to whittle down the numbers. tbh i dunno, ill get back to you on this one lol

All the government has to do to lower the population is create one of those laws where you get a huge fine if you have more than a certain amount of children.

 

[L.B. Jeffries]

I'm with Team Brave New World, since you left out Olaf Stapledon's Last and First Men.

Brainwash society to consume goods for no reason except to boost economy? Yup.
Encourage pharmaceuticals to induce happiness and ability to work? Ritalin and Valium, check.
Absolute worship of youth and ignorance? Check.
Demonization of non-conformist societies and ideologies? Check.

The sad thing about Brave New World is that you don't need tube babies. We did it to ourselves voluntarily.

 

[Ares Tyr]

It's Judge Dredd.

I voted Faranheit, but I can see different ones happening, depending on what advances we make technologically in the future.

 

[hefajstos2]

Brave New world is about Humans conditioned into a caste system and, a guy named John who love liturature even though most forms of it were eliminated.

 

[Shirahime]

Hmmm, I'm thinking something more along the lines of Ergo Proxy.

Perhaps maybe without the strange Proxy's kicking about with their weirdness. I dunno.

 

[Aardvark]

This is how it's going to go down. A Great Person will emerge in America, will start up a Corporation, which will then be spread to every city on Earth. The resulting drain on gold reserves will hit every country currently not using the State Property economic civic and will allow America to come close to winning an economic victory. But before this can happen, these police states will all declare war on America, but not before America can develop their Space Ship and escape to Alpha Centauri, where they will split into 12 factions, all settle on a fungus-ridden planet, discover two alien factions and then fight their way to Transcendence

 

[hem dazon 90]

What about other option?

How about a future world where women were the ruling class and chauvinism was paramount, where men were whipped and underpaid because of being sorely miserable at developing "proper" empathy in comparison to women, where men were overtly sexualized in the open media, looked at as walking sperm tubes and mocked for their obvious logic impairing sex drive. And adding insult to injury, men are deemed as overtly aggressive brutes and so are swiftly oppressed and passed over for political positions citing unrealistic views or volatile temper, creating an enduring one sided discourse where men are under represented.

Or then again, we can just flip it the other way around.

wow creepy

 

[Ritz Dijuto]

Ah, Aldous Huxley's wonderful novel. Loved it and hated it.

When I first read it, I was creeped the hell out up until the finish, and only with hindisght do I realize why. The humanity of the characters - after all, they were humans - and yet how dumb, mindless, and happy they were about their little lives except a select few odd ducks just grabbed me feet first and pulled me to the deepest corner of the uncanny valley.

And yet it really seems like the most... hopeful apocalypse. Saddening, ain't it?

 

[SmugFrog]

Nice selection of choices. I'm torn between 1984 and Fahrenheit 451.

 

[PlasticPorter]

Equalibrium pissed me off
all the people who were supposed to be "emotionless" kept freaking out.
Near the end the Boss "emotionless" freaks out

but censorship is becoming more and more prevalent so i suspect that is our future...Or zombie Dwarfs.

 

[Avatar Roku]

It's not up there, but Children Of Men (following the movie, not book). For the past 18 years, all women (or perhaps men, no one is sure of the cause) have been completely sterile. All governments of the world destroy each other out of petty wars, now that the human race is dieing anyway. Only England remains, and they've fallen under a totalitarian regime. You could stop it here, but I'll give the rest of the plot rundown, so you can check it out if you want (alright book, excellent movie).

All of a sudden, the main character finds a woman who is very far along in a pregnancy. This would be great, but the aforementioned government is planning to take her into custody, let the baby be born, kill her, match the baby up to a "proper" english "mother" (the actual mother was black, from a small island nation who's name escapes me), thereby increasing the gvt's popularity and stifling rebellions while simultaneously dooming the rest of the human race. The main character must get her to an unsecret secret group (you know, everyone knows about them, no one know where to find them, I think "the human project" was the name, but I don't remember for sure) where they can safely announce the pregnancy where she'll be safe. I won't spoil the rest.

 

[Aardvark Soup]

I think we already live in an idiocracy, and that nothing will change in the next 200 years...

 

[ElephantGuts]

You talk like there will even be a future for a dystopian society to be in. There won't. But if there was I would have to say it would be just like today, only people think the world is going to end even sooner.

 

[wewontdie11]

Where's the nuclear winter option? Honestly I think that is the most likely to happen over about the next 100 years.

 

[FLSH_BNG]

The reason matrix is not up there is that humans consume more energy then they generate. It is scientifically impossible.

Whats a brave new world about?

Humans do consume more energy than they generate, but that's because we are all active to some extent. The humans in The Matrix were essentially atrophied and had no need for movement. When they became useless, they were recycled and energy saved.

It's a sci-fi universe anyway, why does it matter. I'm surprised that "Terminator" is not up there.

oh wait... it was.

 

[curlycrouton]

the future is definetly going to be ruled by Scientologists
no doubt about it
we are all doomed
just lie down with a paper bag over your head and accept your fate

 

[Akafrank]

All of them!
Young genetically engineered cannibalistic morons ruled by super-intelligent authoritative robotic monkey cops!

 

[Anton P. Nym]

Humans do consume more energy than they generate, but that's because we are all active to some extent. The humans in The Matrix were essentially atrophied and had no need for movement. When they became useless, they were recycled and energy saved.

It's a sci-fi universe anyway, why does it matter. I'm surprised that "Terminator" is not up there.

*sigh* In this forum, we obey the laws of thermodynamics.

Humans take high-grade energy (carbohydrates) and emit low-grade energy (heat, and not terribly quickly at a mere 98 degrees either); in any process, the conversion of energy from one type (chemical) to another (heat) results in wasted energy. The Matrix-droids would've generated more electricity just burning the carbohydrates in a boiler and skipping the middle step than they would've by feeding 'em to humans and then getting the heat indirectly, more slowly, and with all the "wasted" energy spent on keeping the meat alive. Sorry, the Warchowskis blew that one badly.

Also, the Terminator future is mentioned in the above poll right alongside the Matrix entry... grouped under "any machine uprising".

-- Steve

 

[bad rider]

I chose super censorship as it appears to be occurring while fighting my urge to put idiocracy and say most people are at the moment ... ahhh sweet relief.