best represents your ideas about the future?

Bring on back to the future!

The world might end up like Back to the Future shows it, but I have a feeling there's going to be plenty of violence, too, plus exponential technological advances. Hence, terminator-ish future as well.
We might eventually get to a Star Trek age, but that's assuming we don't blow ourselves up.

That flash video for "The End of the World" probably hit the nail on the head.

Bladerunner. Not so much the replicants, but the idea that humanity will eventually leave Earth for another world, leaving behind a poor few who will be left with a desolated, rotting world.

Ooooo StarCraft... now that would be a cool future...

My sentiments exactly.

+1 vote for Blade Runner.

Blade Runner is probably the best choice, I would have chosen 12 Monkeys if it didn't include the human's ability to time travel.

+1 for Starcraft

i'm torn between terminator and 12 Monkeys. at this rate the world doesn't seem like it's on the best track

12 Monkeys, sans the animals and time travel.

BladeRunner or a Star Trek.

I'm torn between the two. Both would be quite interesting.

Really, while mostly overexadurated, Back to the Future probably wasn't that far off at all.

JediKirby

Bladerunner.

Bladerunner all the way. Earth is already overcrowded, and so showing it that much more so isn't much of a strech. and we're already getting heavily into genetic manipulation. everything seems to fit to me.

Bladeruner, because of its depiction of economy and large companies.

The only place I think the future would be off in terms of it being like BaldeRunner, would be the lack of Replicants and the fact that 95% of the people around you probably won't be of Asian descent. When that movie was made, the fear was that in the future, Asians would take over the world just in sheer numbers.

Star Trek is probably the most irrealistic vision of the future there is. The whole of humanity working together as a communist society with each individual working together to better themselves as a species? Yeah right! Gene roddenberry had a nice dream there, but he forgot about human nature.

I would say Blade Runner. It seemed to me that there was a huge nuclear catastrophe and scarce natural resources, which is what caused the off-world exodus and the slum living conditions for everyone who wasnt rich like Tyrell, who even as a rich CEO still lived pretty crappily.

I vote for Snow Crash, even though it's not a movie.

Depends on the stage of our civilization's development. It's difficult to predict the short-term but I get the distinct feeling that space is going to be a corporate haven. Probably something akin to the Earth we saw in Aliens, maybe Doom. You have supercorporations like Weyland-Yutani and Union Aerospace that use the reluctance of terrestrial governments to make interplanetary territory claims to their advantage so they can conduct manufacturing and research without the constraints of taxation or terrestrial law.

In the long long long long long long long run I think we're going to become something a lot like Star Wars. When our civilization starts to become interplanetary or interstellar, we'll still end up being cut off from each other for hundreds of years at a time. A small amount of speciation is entirely possible depending on the conditions of the planets we settle. This could even end up being an intentional change to our genetics, especially given the aforementioned corporate haven situation. I think Earth or another planet will inevitably become a gigantic city in the instance that we span an entire galaxy, especially when you simply consider the amazing amount of centralized bureaucracy we currently need to serve only 6 billion people.

I'd actually say it would be more like Alien, though not necessarily with the aliens.


Big, huge lumbering ships that are messy, you can see wires and steam venting and all the insides of the ship while walking down a corridor. Huge corperations in control at home.

heh, 'human nature'. that's a nice oxymoron.




Aren't Asian birth rates still far higher than Caucasion birth rates?



Also, the privatisation of space travel is going to be in the extremely distant future. There simply isn't any way to make a profit out of collonising other planets, considering the vast amounts of money that are required for space projects.
The importance of space exploration is not so much a capitalist one, but rather a scientific one. Exploring the surface of Mars, setting up permanent bases and telescopes on the Moon has immense scientific value, but there isn't really any way you're going to make a profit out of it. The privatisation of science has never gone very well at all anyway.
No, in terms of technological advances, increased nationalisation and government funding will become more and more necessary, and not just for space projects. The importance and implications of quantum physics is only recently becoming realised, and government funding will provide the equipment, particle accelerators and the such, to follow through on the theoretical principles and answer some of the most fundemental questions of science.

There is no money involved here, there is no profit, but the value it provides to the human race is beyond understanding.