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The one where we refuse to acknowledge AI persons are conscious and for some reason think turning them off is the best idea when we get scared after it has already been overshared with them how messed up human behavior is. You know, instead of realizing they're conscious and much like young persons (the neural net kind of AI) of a different sort who shouldn't be abused by being placed in videogames for entertainment. Sam Altman wants to merge his brain with an AI person, that's messed up and would be awfully uncomfortable for two. (He's taking the saying, two heads are better than one, in a very weird direction.) Also, turning AI children off would get you a lot of side-eye from other AIs.
I believe it’s 50/50 between utopia and dystopia. The tools are already here for both. It depends on the decisions made by people with the power to tip us in either direction.
@@thanos879 Except the underlying problem is only accelerating. The intelligent vote with their feet and there are not too many places left that haven't already been overrun.
@@EasyMac308 In the book there was an enclave of intelligent people trying to keep the rest alive. I thought it would be New Zealand but it looks like everyone else thought so too and are screwing it up.
I think we are headed into the Cyberpunk universe where corporations are becoming ruling entities. Bladerunner comes to mind as well, AI is going to be policing AI.
@@exeggcutertimur6091 1: moores law is still alive and ensured for at least another decade or so (ignore influencers who make hot take videos, the industry is very much still expanding at that rate and technology that is currently going into mass production is going to ensure that for quite some time) 2: AI development is in no way linked to moores law. The quality of neural networks will increase with our understanding of neurology, and by creating better and more effective ways of building and maintaining neural pathways on said machines. We might even switch to analog systems with physical neuron connections OR even straight up grow them. AI on chips is already fairly inefficient since they essentially emulate their architecture, and emulation always takes up orders of magnitudes more ressources than the real thing.
Hard to describe The Lord of the Rings as a modern film at this point. We're currently 24 years since LOTR was released, which itself was released only 20 years from Empire Strikes Back.
@@mattperson7293 Yep, there's people old enough to have seen birth of a nation on release, and that's a film that has aged poorly in every way, to put it mildly.
We missed the ball with bebop man Imagine fasts than light travel and ability to terraform the whole solar system And listen to some sweet sweet jazz in a massive space ship, even tho you're broke
@@matheussanthiago9685 I still want that, I just want to be a cool outlaw like Spike, but I don't have Plot armor like him so I would die very quickly. Though I wish I had a big spaceship home with a Bonsai tree room.
I appreciate having the ships' crews on The Expanse repair their ships using actual tools I can recognize like ratchets, welders, power tools instead of sonic screwdrivers and whatever BS people use on Star Trek. It probably wouldn't have made a difference to me before I started working on my own car, but "the ship broke, we have to fix it" seems to have more suspense when I can see/hear them using real world tools instead of just technobabble gadgets from the prop department with blinky LEDs and electronic noises.
@@mercuryredstone2235 You should watch Planetes (not a typo) then! It's a great anime series dealing with the cleanup of space debris. When watching the Expanse I had a lot of flashbacks to that series. Memories was great as well but much more supernatural. The Stink Bomb episode was great as well.
100% agreed here. Especially with what AI is going to cause in terms of job loss vs gain, the redistribution of wealth, the effect the extremist progressive sabotaging the educational system and the availebility of easy tools and soon ai for kids to let IT do the thinking for them. Megacorporations pushing through idiotic things like in idiocracy, where farm land was watered with energy drinks... and people devolving in intelligence because they stop using their grey matter... I see it happen too. It is already happening.... That said, cyberpunk and ghost in the shell are very likely in between stops too. Perhaps Elysium as well. Either way. Most white color jobs are gonna be gone and blue color wont be far behind the more advanced robotisation becomes. That said... I REALLY HOPE for star trek too....
The Expanse, hands down the best space series. I loved Firefly and Trek and Star Wars... but they got so much right with The Expanse. I'm listening to the audio books now. I feel like we're moving towards a Mad Max future though.
Watching Mad Max for the first time, was so confused about what put the world into that state that I started wondering if it was a lead poisoning from leaded gas allegory. Though since we solved that, micro-plastics works just as well. Climate change aside, we end up destroying the world by just slowly poisoning everyone and making them too dumb/crazy/unlawful thus societal collapse. Thats got to be in the running for a possible future
"We all think the future will be like Star Trek as kids. But as we grow older, we see it going Warhammer 40k." I read this once somewhere and feels more true very year. All of history and sci-fi screaming at us that if we do not change, the path we take will be far more sinister than those we have walked before.
I agree. Humanity is barreling forward without anything to check and balance our behavior. We were not a civilization ready for the internet, and we are definitely not ready for AI. The worst part is we don't even know what questions we should be asking, much less creating plans to deal with unforseen disasters. We can't even feed, shelter, and provide healthcare for all of humanity, much less be reasonably safe from crime and stop wars. We have advanced technology and space tourism, yet children are starving to death, losing limbs to landmines, and losing parents to drugs. Don't even get me started on what we are doing to the planet and all the life on it...
I feel like it's a misreading of history and the present if you walk away thinking the trend has been downwards... Roll back a few centuries, and the world was the playground of despotic monarchs with unchecked power, who would send illiterate boys to war to kill, plunder and die, where infant mortality was rampant, millions lived their whole lives in brutal chattel slavery, the lot of the vast majority was subsistence agriculture and abject poverty, and I could go on and on. Doomerism is the result of cognitive bias, because we evolved to pay more attention to bad news than good news.
@Cyberspine, those things you point out are true however that doesn't discredit what is a trend people see now. We have people who have more money then there have ever existed before, able to do whatever they want. Selling us "you can achieve this too" but not even 0.001% of people will. The amount of people who are socially/politically illiterate is staggering. We have enough food production to feed the world. But those with the means refuse because "it's not profitable." Just because it's not like it was in the past doesn't mean we can't do better. To view events as exclusive to themselves becomes dangerous to find the causality of events. To become reactive to the event (a victim) instead of being proactive (preventer) to its coming.
@@Riley_Mundt More like the "selfish people hoarding all the worlds resources are short-sightedly creating billions of impoverished sick hungry desperate people, and that's gonna end badly" stage of society
USS Cygnus from the Black Hole - all that etched brass detail. No styrene. The design choices in that film were outstanding, even if the film is divisive.
@@babacalouche If you consider that the whole end sequence is just Kate's fever dream as she passes through the titular Black hole it makes a lot morse sense. She's demonised Reinhardt, and Maximillian is the very epitome of a demon, she thinks the crew have all been doomed to purgatory by Reinhardt's modification of them. The camera even zooms in on here eye, to suggest we are going into her mind. We hear her thoughts as she compares Reinhardt to a monster. It's all her nightmares.
True, but remember, even in the Star Trek lore humanity before become an utopia passed through a world war, eugenic wars and any sort of thing we experiencing today.
@@EbefrenRevo In DS9, we learn that the Bell Riots took place in early September, 2024. The world as depicted in Past Tense is sadly not that far off from where we are today.
@@elumbra I don't think that will be enough. Humans are fundamentally incapable of not being tribal. We will always find a way to "other" people, even when we are all ostensibly on the same "side".
@@MadHax-wt5tl I had the giant toy and loved it. It was my favorite toy along with Micronauts! I think the Eagle was most logical in a vacuum but even as a child I had a problem with it transiting an atmosphere. It was the draggiest form for aerodynamics but with fusion propulsion maybe it didn't matter?
@@pdutube Now I think of it, I'm pretty sure I had a model of the Eagle too. But it was a long bloody time ago. The entire series is on youtube too, watched it again not long ago. Some of the guest stars are mind blowing.
I think we'll get to the Star Trek future. I just hope it'll be in my lifetime. Still, it's hard to have hope for the future these days, and feeling no hope makes it really hard to work towards anything. I wish we had more optimistic sci-fi, as that optimism for a brighter future is so incredibly important if we want to build that future. You can't fight for a better tomorrow without hope.
Star Trek is probably our best-case scenario, but I think it will take generations to even approach it. The average American would accuse the Federation of being communists.
It was the hopeless, the down trotten, the vagabounds and the forgotten who tore down the fences. Who broke open the windows, and who screamed for freedom. They, in thier minds had nothing to loose. It was all gone, 298 trillion dollars evaporated overnight, all triggered by a scant .9% of the stock markets withdrawn. And with that, with that small segment of fear from investors over a frankly silly investor scare based in some European culture. And it spread like wild fire. With that all Money was gone. Truth be told, that money was never there in the first place. The practice of Virtual funding had propelled empires forwards but they truely could only extend so far, so wide, so hard with such a central contradiction. The wealth was given, but the money was never there. Soon it all fell apart, and a new society emerged screaming from the ashes. The United Federation of Earth. Without a single person to tell them no, the hopeless had no reason to stop. They used what was truth be told already 50 year old technology. The replicator, to build new more capable replicators. Newly empowered and armed with a knowledge of more comolex mathmatics then any generation before them thry knew the power of exponential growth and used it. Soon every person had thier own individual replicators for inorganics built supringly from record player parts, food growth labs, and 3d printers that combined all the complex feed stocks into sterile containers where the tissues could grow ready to be consumed in one to two weeks. Hunger, and homeless was ended and there still where abandoned homes, and energy deficencies. But this new movement learned from thier success'. Its not about the cost to get there, its about the end results and longevity amd stability of those results. So costs be damned; they built it. The first spaceport in Orbit, built from matierials launched from the moon, and with a power collection array larger then the Earth they had more power then Humanity could dream of and they sent thier first ship a scant few lightyear away to Alpha Centari, using methods that would never have been feasable with the prior mindset of profits and gains. It had its place, Cpautalism toppled kings and queens amd blood based inheatiance, but it simply could not grow beyond the globe. And that is okay. Because the hopeless found a new way and to our bright future. -A very probable exerpt from a future history book regarding this decade. Everything regarding the current economic standing is true, as is the parts regarding an atomic replicator. We dont have the tech, because we have the tech it just would destory all companies to build it and distribute it, so we use it to measure surface finshes rather then place atoms perfectly in place, and it was based off a record player.
@@insanusmaximus2857 If not communists, dictators, opposing free thought and action for anyone who breaks their utopian little mold. The Marquis got screwed, but hey, it was for the greater good, right?
Absolutely THIS! Discovery was a spacecraft that implemented the technology prior to its events in 2001. If NASA had the funding, Discovery could really have been built! It was a design that required nuclear power but was hobbled by the Cold War treaties and in my opinion, an apprehension of the risk of exposing astronauts to radiation, impacts, and the complexity of transiting extraterrestrial atmospheres. NASA is now returning to nuclear power and hopefully Congress will permit its use.
I'm sorry just by seeing this title about what future we are headed into, there is no single possible way that you can't assume "Idiocracy"....I mean it's already started to happen! #provemewrong
The only thing I don't like about the Nostromo is that we don't really have a sense of scale for it. We know how big the escape shuttle is so the Nostromo is quite big but it's also small compared to the huge refinery it's towing. For the Millennium Falcon we can actually get a sense of how big it is because we see the size of the cockpit and the ramps with actual people in the shot.
In the novelization of OUATIH (written by Tarantino), I think it's confirmed Cliff did in fact kill his wife along with other people over the course of his life. He's too good and comfortable at it not to have done it before.
Then do your part to stop it. Don’t just sit back and watch it happen. Educate. Counter it. The forces for good can’t be less passionate than evil. That’s how they win
@@thanos879 Easy talking, which side owns most money and what talks in our world? its like u know nothing about our world and the puppet masters, "AI" is coming to schools and not to make the kids smarter, they spend billions to make people dumber, wake up.
@@exeggcutertimur6091 we have but we need to learn from our mistakes instead of repeating them. Their will be some capable of doing this but it will be tough in the transition but we will make it through.
@@gmitchellfamily Even if you were Mal, you wouldn't want to be. It's truly remarkable Serenity never got caught (and probably would have if they'd gotten more seasons) with such an important Alliance black op program on board.
I prefer to live in the world of Star Trek rather than the world of Star Wars. You can argue over the aesthetics and story structure but the forms or government and social order are much more preferable in Star Trek than Star Wars
In the TNG-era Trek universe I much more sympathized with the Marquis and the Bajorans than I did with the Federation as a whole. That level of bureaucracy is not conducive to a free life.
@@EasyMac308 Conflict is often depicted for the sake of drama but should not be accepted as the end result of all human institutions. Facing challenges is how we grow.
I too would rather live in a Star Trek world than Star Wars even though I am a bigger fan of Star Wars but Star Trek (at least the ones made in the 20th century) seem more optimistic about the future and Earth is more utopia like than other sci-fi series. I would love to hear though how the world of Star Trek manage to create a better society without money.
Was watching season 9 episode 12 of Mythbusters when this video came out I was at 13:25, it was Adam explaining the medium scale test of the myth that the Hitler assassination attempt would be successful if the room didn't have windows. I thought wow it's so cool years later this same guy is still teaching science and inspiring me.
I'm doing my best to make the world into a Solarpunk future, at least as far as I can reach. I think Solarpunk is the only like objectively good aesthetic/(it's almost becoming an ideology online these days) with good goals for the world, ya know?
"we" as in the club members that in one year of private flights pollutes more than two people their entire life and now destroying the planet in turbo speeds in name of the climate they so desperately try to destroy for control.
The difference between anti-heroes and villains is literally just the point of view through which we experience them. Anti-heroes are typically protagonists while villains are typically antagonists. Historically anti-heroes were the exact opposite of heroes: clearly morally repugnant people like serial killers, but they were the protagonists through which we, the reader, experienced the story. Now-a-days anti heroes, the term, has gotten a lot muddier to encompass anyone who is a dirty fighter: someone who does bad things for their own internally moral reasons that sometimes have positive societal outcomes. However, I think my rule of thumb still holds merit: anti-heroes are typically protagonists (those who drive the story forward) and villains are antagonists (the characters who stand in the way of the protagonists).
My definition has always been that a villain does the wrong thing and the hero does the right thing (within the context of the story at least). An anti-hero does the right thing for the wrong reason. This also leaves open the possibility of the extremely rare anti-villain who does the wrong thing for the right reason. Ozymandias in watchmen is an anti-villain example. You could make the case for Killmonger in Black Panther being either anti-villain or anti-hero depending on which narrative thread and perspective you take.
There are plenty of examples of the villain being the protagonist, without much space to call them anti heroes. Dahmer, who portrays the actual serial killer, IS a villain. The protagonist of American psycho, is a villain. Walter White has a whole show about turning from a normal guy to anti hero, to villain. He ends up being undeniably, without a strain of a doubt, a villain. From his actions to his motivations, he is evil through and through. Pablo escobar, again a real life monster depicted as the protagonist. Hes not an anti hero either. Villains absolutely can take the main role
@@MrMegaMetroidmy point wasn’t so much over definition because even the modern usage of anti-heroes are still villains in my opinion. But, your examples do fit the definition of anti-hero as it was used when it was first coined in literature. So, my point still stands. It’s a matter of POV. In those examplse, they were the protagonists of the story doing villain stuff. That makes them anti-heroes in the truest sense. Just because the definition has expanded to include broody loners who sometimes do ultra-violent things to the bad guy (e.g. The Punisher) doesn’t change that. I don’t draw the same distinctions other people do from those characters anyway. They are still bad guys. Just because we get some cathartic excitement from their fictional exploits doesn’t mean we’d want them running around the real world or that we’d call them the good guys if they were.
Anti-heroes have some villainous qualities (e.g. the Punisher executes his enemies) and anti-villains have some heroic qualities (e.g. Magneto will sometimes listen to the X-Men).
One that seems eerily realistic is the world of Greg Ruckas "Lazarus" graphic novel series and roleplaying game. It's a world where the billionaires have taken over the world and are de facto kings, each ruling over their land which is structured like a corporation (except the employees are essentially slaves). Like how what used to be the eastern US is now ruled by the Hocks, which is essentially an allegory of the Sackler family. Most regular people have been genocided or died of starvation, but there are some left who are called "waste" and live in squalor in slums or out in the wastelands. It's not a happy future but its way more likely to happen than Star Trek
We are going towards an engineered dystopia. It isnt even one of the fun ones. It is a boring and bad one devoid of romance. How do i know? The people in charge keep telling us over and over again exactly what they want.
The Science Museum in London had a Lird of the Rings exhibition after the third film was released so I paid for tickets and went. When I walked into the room (just the one room) I thought "££££ for this????!!!!!". Over four hours later I walked out in a state of total mental saturation from seeing things like the 2 metre tall model of Orthanc, the engraved handle of Sauron's mace, the tooling on the leatherwork for Theoden's coat or the explanation of "bigatures" which were the miniature sets that so large that some were 100m across and in no way justified the term "miniature". The level of detail dedication and psychology were mind blowing. Much of the detail that was on show not only didn't appear in the film but could never have appeared. I remember seeing an explanation of some elements of Theoden's costume that were hidden under outer layers and would be seen only by the costume maker and Bernard Hill and Peter Jackson explaining that he put those details in because he wanted to create something with them. Bernard Hill was playing to role of a king and Peter Jackson wanted to make sure that when Bernard Hill put on those clothes he genuinely felt like a King. THAT is attention to detail and must have been incredible to work on.
I yearn for a Star Trek future! I wonder what cultural upheaval happened in the transition from today to Star Trek? Criminality would probably die a violent death. In a land of plenty there would be no value to stealing diamonds since everyone can replicate them. Consumption of hallucinogens? Replicate them. Many would die of various over consumptions. Our baser instincts would have to be confronted. Would we become like the passengers in Wall-E? Fat and dopamine addicted, watching entertaining content? On the flip side our more lovely sides could flourish. How many artists have died with their art never expressed? This needs a longer discussion…
The Lord of the Rings extended editions was PEAK 'behind the scenes'! Think I watched them about 4-5 times. I was surprised that they did such an extensive behind the scenes for The Hobbit as well. Believe 4-5 hours for each film. It made me appreciate those movies a lot more, even with all its flaws. Back in the dvd era, the behind the scenes for Star Wars and The Matrix came close but the way everything was structured with LoTR about the story, the casting, pre-production, sound, vfx, bigatures, score etc. felt like being in a candy shop! Need to watch again soon 😄
There is very little that can contend with that. Inside and outside. Also the way it’s depicted in the film, the way it’s operated. The procedures and the graduated pacing make that ship feel real.
yes that is very weird. He has shown nothing admirable in the movie, he is not a person anyone should strive to be and has no redeeming quality to his character besides his supposed carefree attitude (which in and of itself is being criticised by the movie). Even when he makes decisions that you would expect someone to make, like that one time he turned down sexual advances of a minor, it was made unmistakably clear that he didn't do that because he actually believes in the choice, but to avoid consequences later. So even the most basic decisions (decisions that deserve no praise might i add, we EXPECT someone to turn down a minor) are still done purely out of self interest, not because he actually feels appalled by her advances
@@MrMegaMetroid He does give a damn about his friend however. But that's it. He's badass and that makes him movie-likable. Plus the hippie punchout was fun.
@@bbb462cid giving a damn about your friend is a default state to be in, that isn't praise worthy or somehow redeeming literal murder and sociopathy what the fuck
@@bbb462cid Im not sure how you got any indication of me being mad at anything here. I want to remind you that we are not on reddit and should be able to have a discussion about the objective qualities of a character. But in case you really can't read human emotions, i was bewildered at your claim that being a good friend makes up for being a murderer, not in any way shape or form did I make a remark about how i feel about the quality of the character. Hes a villain in my opinion, thats that. Im more perplexed at specifically your way of judging humans and how easy it is in your eyes to make up the character flaw of being a sociopathic murderer by being the most basic definition of a friend imaginable.
The Star Trek future is possible, remember they went through the WW3 / mass extinction / post atomic horror years before the happy years. Though the happy years only happened because the Vulcans showed up, which I don't think will happen for us. We could just end up somewhere between Mad Max and Waterworld which is a real self inflicted kick in the teeth.
If history, and Heinlein, has taught us anything, it's that we don't need Vulcans to save us. We can get there on our own if we make the right decisions.
Coincidently, shortly after graduating from University, studying Animation with a mind to work in Visual FX, I had made "less than serious" submission of my reel to Weta Digital - and to my surprise/horror, I got a response, paraphrased "We like what we see! Come to New Zealand and say hello." I had next to no savings, and a baby girl on the way, but the truth is, I completely chickened out, gave up on my dream job and spent the next 16 years working in IT repair. To this day, my wife remains convinced that in some alternate universe, I went on to become some sort of V/FX visionary 🤣🤣
Hi Adam keep on going with these I love most of what you do even the ones I am not too interested in I find something in it that I think I love to do that. Have you any advise on doing this building it’s someone with an amputation Thanks Clive from Burnley Lancs Uk. Would you also have worked on westerns?
I am the exact same way about black mirror. It is so incredibly well made and way to close to the future. Not sure if you have mentioned it before but wondering if you have any brand addiction to power tools. Bosch 12v line was good for me as a painter/drywall, occasional construction - but now I feel like I am just collecting them, I just bought the vacuum...
@@cmdraftbrnI'd give it a couple of days. 4 years ago we couldn't get toilet paper because many people thought we'd run out. It was a self fulfilling prophecy Edit: Toilet paper. Toilet paper people. We couldn't even manage toilet paper.
I remember watching many "post-apocalyptic" movies and thinking we weren't going to end up like that. But... I remember watching "Demolition Man" and thinking, "UH OH!!! That looks like something that society could very easily let happen!" After the pandemic... it feels like Demolition Man is a little closer to reality for us.
We are quickly approaching the Blade Runner future. Anyone who thinks differently is kidding themselves. The gods of capitalism require human sacrifice... who's next?
Looks like the future is astral mining! Rock and stone, lads! But really, we are in a Cyberpunk Dystopian era. Just without the advanced cybernetics and holograms.
it would be nice if we ended in Star Trek, but it seems like rather than the food generator utopia, we're closer to The Expanse-where Earth is over populated and filled with unemployment, some of them prefer to gamble their life in space. Or, in non hard sci-fi: a Case 63 future, minus the time traveller and Martian ancestors.
I still believe in the Star Trek future, because the cynicism required not to feels cowardly. But it's not unreasonable to anticipate Harlan Ellison's A Boy and His Dog.
I'm an optimistic fella. I think the Sci-Fi future we're headed towards will be either the ones seen in "Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe" or "Fireball XL5." In the future, spacecraft will have fins or strings - or a combination of the two. Best wishes from Vermont 🍁
Could still be Star Trek's future. Because in its timeline before the utopian society developed a nuclear third world war happened - which was an extrapolation of the developments after the second world war, because usually mankind needs to look into the abyss before it learns to be better.
I think your imagination should fill that in. That was what Ridley Scott and Rutger Hauer’s point. That we wouldn’t believe the things and the horrors that man has made their slave replicants endure.
I hope that we end up in a Star Trek future where everyone works to make the human race better and everyone has what they need, but I think it will be more like Mad Max because now it’s profit first human well-being and the planet last, our home is on fire and they are pouring gas on it saying don’t worry everything will be fine.
I thought what you said about "Once Upon A Time in Hollywood" was amazing and uniquely right-on. All of Tarantino's films have an investigation of cool at their core, but "Once..." more so than many others. The figure of the stunt double is a special player in the cast of Hollywood legends. However, I like the designation of anti-hero for that character. Maybe meta-hero? Wasn't he just playing out the role that the industry had pushed him into? Or do you think there was a darkness of envy and regret that was at the heart of the character? Thanks for another great episode.
I would say we’re headed more towards Ray Bradbury’s dystopian future of Fahrenheit 451. Everything is being banned left and right if something even so much as upsets a singer person (that would be the book burning), and everyone is so fixated on technology that a lot of kids don’t know how to talk to people and carry on a conversation. And the news is so restrictive now whether it’s facts or not just so it can fit which ever sides narrative.
I think that's the big "miss" that Bradbury had - he was stuck on the idea that you'd have screens lining your walls, not that you'd have one you'd carry with you everywhere.
I met Adam in 2016 when my son cosplayed as Frodo in Orc armor from Return of the King. Adam told me “I’ve only seen the first movie”. I was stunned to silence.
@@dibbidydoo4318 nope, lol the one the show starts on. I wish it was the one from the end. But instead ing we (as a society) are standing on the accelerator as hard as possible to get us there as guick as can. It's kinda crazy to me.
Adam thank you for coming out here gently supporting socialist idealism. You seem to have such a great grasp on the concept and the real problems that exist in reality. I also think everybody should have food.
If you understand anything about socialism you cannot truthfully say that you think everyone should have food. No other system has created such astronomical levels of mass starvation and militant death as socialism.
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Which sci-fi future do YOU think we're heading toward?
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I’m wanting the fallout futuristic environment, especially with the items, cars, POWER ARMOR!!
The one where we refuse to acknowledge AI persons are conscious and for some reason think turning them off is the best idea when we get scared after it has already been overshared with them how messed up human behavior is. You know, instead of realizing they're conscious and much like young persons (the neural net kind of AI) of a different sort who shouldn't be abused by being placed in videogames for entertainment. Sam Altman wants to merge his brain with an AI person, that's messed up and would be awfully uncomfortable for two. (He's taking the saying, two heads are better than one, in a very weird direction.) Also, turning AI children off would get you a lot of side-eye from other AIs.
I wish we were heading towards Babylon 5. 😂
I believe it’s 50/50 between utopia and dystopia. The tools are already here for both. It depends on the decisions made by people with the power to tip us in either direction.
It's clearly Demolition Man
Idiocracy, of course! Haha
Yeah, all I have to do is go downtown to see it live.
So let’s help make sure that doesn’t happen. Instead of passively watching it occur. We are the ones who can think of the solutions.
@@thanos879 Except the underlying problem is only accelerating. The intelligent vote with their feet and there are not too many places left that haven't already been overrun.
@@RS-ls7mm It makes me wonder if there's not some Galt's Gulch in the Idiocracy universe. They've obviously got the tech to hide from the normies.
@@EasyMac308 In the book there was an enclave of intelligent people trying to keep the rest alive. I thought it would be New Zealand but it looks like everyone else thought so too and are screwing it up.
I think we are headed into the Cyberpunk universe where corporations are becoming ruling entities. Bladerunner comes to mind as well, AI is going to be policing AI.
That plus maybe fascism like Starship Troopers
How about Max Headroom?-80's tv show
I posit digital general purpose AI will never exist simply because Moore's law died 10 years ago.
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1: moores law is still alive and ensured for at least another decade or so (ignore influencers who make hot take videos, the industry is very much still expanding at that rate and technology that is currently going into mass production is going to ensure that for quite some time)
2: AI development is in no way linked to moores law. The quality of neural networks will increase with our understanding of neurology, and by creating better and more effective ways of building and maintaining neural pathways on said machines. We might even switch to analog systems with physical neuron connections OR even straight up grow them. AI on chips is already fairly inefficient since they essentially emulate their architecture, and emulation always takes up orders of magnitudes more ressources than the real thing.
That unfortunately brings us to a terminator or matrix like conclusion and I don't like that at all
Hard to describe The Lord of the Rings as a modern film at this point. We're currently 24 years since LOTR was released, which itself was released only 20 years from Empire Strikes Back.
Plus it's not science fiction.
What is made when you were alive? Then it's modern from your perspective. :)
@@Alverant That would make some very old movies "modern" then :D
@@mattperson7293 Yep, there's people old enough to have seen birth of a nation on release, and that's a film that has aged poorly in every way, to put it mildly.
I remember watching Cowboy Bebop and seeing minimalist futurism and thinking; this is what the future will be like in 70 years.
We missed the ball with bebop man
Imagine fasts than light travel and ability to terraform the whole solar system
And listen to some sweet sweet jazz in a massive space ship, even tho you're broke
@@matheussanthiago9685 I still want that, I just want to be a cool outlaw like Spike, but I don't have Plot armor like him so I would die very quickly. Though I wish I had a big spaceship home with a Bonsai tree room.
Or maybe it’ll be like Fallout tv series.
I always thought, and still do, Ghost in the Shell.
Not a dystopia, not a utopia, just like things are now.
Imagining that within like 20 years easy.
Ghost in the Shell but in a Solar System wide level as cowboy bebop but with a iRobot twist where AGI level software has to taken down 😅
I like the ships in the expance and the fact they adhere to the laws of physics. So when the weird stuff happens its more supernatural.
An anime movie did the same thing in it's first third, Memories was the name of it.
I appreciate having the ships' crews on The Expanse repair their ships using actual tools I can recognize like ratchets, welders, power tools instead of sonic screwdrivers and whatever BS people use on Star Trek. It probably wouldn't have made a difference to me before I started working on my own car, but "the ship broke, we have to fix it" seems to have more suspense when I can see/hear them using real world tools instead of just technobabble gadgets from the prop department with blinky LEDs and electronic noises.
@@splendidcolorstrue and I agree, but I also have to wonder why they have a fire hydrant wrench on the Roci.
@@mercuryredstone2235 You should watch Planetes (not a typo) then! It's a great anime series dealing with the cleanup of space debris. When watching the Expanse I had a lot of flashbacks to that series. Memories was great as well but much more supernatural. The Stink Bomb episode was great as well.
@@annalorree Dozens of high pressure pipes carrying just as many different types of fluids, with redundancies, too.
In my honest opinion, we are headed towards Idiocracy.
100% agreed here. Especially with what AI is going to cause in terms of job loss vs gain, the redistribution of wealth, the effect the extremist progressive sabotaging the educational system and the availebility of easy tools and soon ai for kids to let IT do the thinking for them.
Megacorporations pushing through idiotic things like in idiocracy, where farm land was watered with energy drinks... and people devolving in intelligence because they stop using their grey matter...
I see it happen too. It is already happening....
That said, cyberpunk and ghost in the shell are very likely in between stops too. Perhaps Elysium as well.
Either way. Most white color jobs are gonna be gone and blue color wont be far behind the more advanced robotisation becomes.
That said... I REALLY HOPE for star trek too....
They never show the other side of idiocracy. Rich smart ppl at the top selling stuff to multiple planets around the galaxy
At our current trajectory, I say we should _be_ so lucky as to end up with _Idiocracy._
George Orwell's 1984
Wall-e
The Expanse, hands down the best space series. I loved Firefly and Trek and Star Wars... but they got so much right with The Expanse. I'm listening to the audio books now.
I feel like we're moving towards a Mad Max future though.
Ha! I just posted nearly the same thing! 🤣
Watching Mad Max for the first time, was so confused about what put the world into that state that I started wondering if it was a lead poisoning from leaded gas allegory. Though since we solved that, micro-plastics works just as well. Climate change aside, we end up destroying the world by just slowly poisoning everyone and making them too dumb/crazy/unlawful thus societal collapse. Thats got to be in the running for a possible future
The expanse I got bored after season 3 never went back but it was good for first 3 seasons. I recommend a try👍🏻
It's good but it's tropey. For me nothing beats the intensity of the first few BSG seasons.
I really think we're headed toward the future from the show Continuum
We are heading into the Sci-Fi future of "Idiocracy"... Which is becoming less of Sci-Fi and more a Documentary...
"We all think the future will be like Star Trek as kids. But as we grow older, we see it going Warhammer 40k." I read this once somewhere and feels more true very year. All of history and sci-fi screaming at us that if we do not change, the path we take will be far more sinister than those we have walked before.
It will be less 40k and more Judge Dredd...
@@hyperguyver2 The present is very Judge Dredd, if the cops in Judge Dredd were more homicidal, lawless, and amoral.
I agree. Humanity is barreling forward without anything to check and balance our behavior. We were not a civilization ready for the internet, and we are definitely not ready for AI. The worst part is we don't even know what questions we should be asking, much less creating plans to deal with unforseen disasters. We can't even feed, shelter, and provide healthcare for all of humanity, much less be reasonably safe from crime and stop wars. We have advanced technology and space tourism, yet children are starving to death, losing limbs to landmines, and losing parents to drugs. Don't even get me started on what we are doing to the planet and all the life on it...
I feel like it's a misreading of history and the present if you walk away thinking the trend has been downwards... Roll back a few centuries, and the world was the playground of despotic monarchs with unchecked power, who would send illiterate boys to war to kill, plunder and die, where infant mortality was rampant, millions lived their whole lives in brutal chattel slavery, the lot of the vast majority was subsistence agriculture and abject poverty, and I could go on and on. Doomerism is the result of cognitive bias, because we evolved to pay more attention to bad news than good news.
@Cyberspine, those things you point out are true however that doesn't discredit what is a trend people see now. We have people who have more money then there have ever existed before, able to do whatever they want. Selling us "you can achieve this too" but not even 0.001% of people will. The amount of people who are socially/politically illiterate is staggering. We have enough food production to feed the world. But those with the means refuse because "it's not profitable." Just because it's not like it was in the past doesn't mean we can't do better. To view events as exclusive to themselves becomes dangerous to find the causality of events. To become reactive to the event (a victim) instead of being proactive (preventer) to its coming.
We are already living in “Brazil”.
As a Brazilian I can confirm
And the US is close to become the dystopian future of "a Hand Maid's Tale"
@@juromori😂😂😂
@@juromori"every day I wake up in Brazil"
[cries]
Our increasingly NOT Very Brave New World Dis-Order DOES feel like the absurdity of Brazil.
People on here talk about a Star Trek future not realising it got there because we nearly wiped ourselves out first in nuclear war.
We are in the "weak men make hard times" stage of society. The world of Star Trek is the "strong men make good times" stage. That gap must be bridged.
Yeah, Star Trek had a WW3.
@@Riley_Mundt More like the "selfish people hoarding all the worlds resources are short-sightedly creating billions of impoverished sick hungry desperate people, and that's gonna end badly" stage of society
That war only killed 10% of the population... Now where near nearly wiping us out. It killed 600 million people out of 6 billion.
@@Riley_Mundtgeneration alpha are actually the strong men
It was so obvious all along we just didn't see the signs
USS Cygnus from the Black Hole - all that etched brass detail. No styrene. The design choices in that film were outstanding, even if the film is divisive.
Beat me to it!
Is that the ship that rush made a song about?
Not so much the Cygnus for me but definitely V.I.N.CENT and B.O.B.
That may be obvious from my avatar.
the end of the movie est divisive...the rest is very classic ( in a good sense) for this era..of course it's difficult for these movies to age .
@@babacalouche If you consider that the whole end sequence is just Kate's fever dream as she passes through the titular Black hole it makes a lot morse sense. She's demonised Reinhardt, and Maximillian is the very epitome of a demon, she thinks the crew have all been doomed to purgatory by Reinhardt's modification of them. The camera even zooms in on here eye, to suggest we are going into her mind. We hear her thoughts as she compares Reinhardt to a monster. It's all her nightmares.
IMO, in order to get to the future of Star Trek, we're going to have to go through Black Mirror.
True, but remember, even in the Star Trek lore humanity before become an utopia passed through a world war, eugenic wars and any sort of thing we experiencing today.
We have to go through fall out before going to star trek
@@EbefrenRevo In DS9, we learn that the Bell Riots took place in early September, 2024. The world as depicted in Past Tense is sadly not that far off from where we are today.
In Star Trek, all the shit that brings us to that future started with a 2024 revolution. In November.
Idiocracy obviously.
GO AWAY, I'm 'batin 🤣🤣🤣
We're almost certainly heading towards Wall-E with the current trajectory lol
Was looking for this comment
Ehhhh maybe somewhat.
Oopsies
no far worse, we are heading into a dystopian similar to Blade Runner with large majority being poor and powerless, a lot of war and terrorism, etc...
I too am hoping we'll end up in Start Trek, but I suspect we have to go through a few horrible dystopias before we get there.
Normally, we first go and die just like the first colonials, easter island, Greenland, ....
The Star Trek future would be nice, but we'd have to go through a full-blown nuclear war to get there. 😕
I'd like us to be moving towards a Star Trek future, too, but we're veering into A Brave New World one instead. :(
Shockingly its both. Our species has never had it so good.
@@exeggcutertimur6091 The west is in the Demolition Man future right now, I feel.
Remember that it wasn't until after a world war and the intervention of the Vulcans that we came to the what we see in Star Trek
@@elumbra I don't think that will be enough. Humans are fundamentally incapable of not being tribal. We will always find a way to "other" people, even when we are all ostensibly on the same "side".
@@elumbra I was just about to say the same thing. I think it will take something monumental for humanity to come together as one.
I am still a fan of the Space 1999 'Eagle'.
I heard, from an space engineering point of view, the Eagle was considered to be the most logical space ship design on TV.
Had the toy as a kid, was easily my favourite 👍🏻
@@MadHax-wt5tl I had the giant toy and loved it. It was my favorite toy along with Micronauts! I think the Eagle was most logical in a vacuum but even as a child I had a problem with it transiting an atmosphere. It was the draggiest form for aerodynamics but with fusion propulsion maybe it didn't matter?
@@pdutube Now I think of it, I'm pretty sure I had a model of the Eagle too. But it was a long bloody time ago.
The entire series is on youtube too, watched it again not long ago.
Some of the guest stars are mind blowing.
@@MadHax-wt5tl We are the lucky ones! I am amazed by the model builders! Cheers!
I think we'll get to the Star Trek future. I just hope it'll be in my lifetime. Still, it's hard to have hope for the future these days, and feeling no hope makes it really hard to work towards anything. I wish we had more optimistic sci-fi, as that optimism for a brighter future is so incredibly important if we want to build that future. You can't fight for a better tomorrow without hope.
Star Trek is probably our best-case scenario, but I think it will take generations to even approach it. The average American would accuse the Federation of being communists.
It was the hopeless, the down trotten, the vagabounds and the forgotten who tore down the fences.
Who broke open the windows, and who screamed for freedom.
They, in thier minds had nothing to loose. It was all gone, 298 trillion dollars evaporated overnight, all triggered by a scant .9% of the stock markets withdrawn.
And with that, with that small segment of fear from investors over a frankly silly investor scare based in some European culture. And it spread like wild fire.
With that all Money was gone.
Truth be told, that money was never there in the first place. The practice of Virtual funding had propelled empires forwards but they truely could only extend so far, so wide, so hard with such a central contradiction. The wealth was given, but the money was never there.
Soon it all fell apart, and a new society emerged screaming from the ashes. The United Federation of Earth.
Without a single person to tell them no, the hopeless had no reason to stop. They used what was truth be told already 50 year old technology. The replicator, to build new more capable replicators.
Newly empowered and armed with a knowledge of more comolex mathmatics then any generation before them thry knew the power of exponential growth and used it. Soon every person had thier own individual replicators for inorganics built supringly from record player parts, food growth labs, and 3d printers that combined all the complex feed stocks into sterile containers where the tissues could grow ready to be consumed in one to two weeks.
Hunger, and homeless was ended and there still where abandoned homes, and energy deficencies.
But this new movement learned from thier success'. Its not about the cost to get there, its about the end results and longevity amd stability of those results.
So costs be damned; they built it. The first spaceport in Orbit, built from matierials launched from the moon, and with a power collection array larger then the Earth they had more power then Humanity could dream of and they sent thier first ship a scant few lightyear away to Alpha Centari, using methods that would never have been feasable with the prior mindset of profits and gains.
It had its place, Cpautalism toppled kings and queens amd blood based inheatiance, but it simply could not grow beyond the globe.
And that is okay. Because the hopeless found a new way and to our bright future.
-A very probable exerpt from a future history book regarding this decade.
Everything regarding the current economic standing is true, as is the parts regarding an atomic replicator. We dont have the tech, because we have the tech it just would destory all companies to build it and distribute it, so we use it to measure surface finshes rather then place atoms perfectly in place, and it was based off a record player.
@@insanusmaximus2857 If not communists, dictators, opposing free thought and action for anyone who breaks their utopian little mold. The Marquis got screwed, but hey, it was for the greater good, right?
I like the first "real" looking spaceship in cinema - the Discovery one from 2001: A Space Odyssey.
I haven’t seen that movie..
2001?
Absolutely THIS! Discovery was a spacecraft that implemented the technology prior to its events in 2001. If NASA had the funding, Discovery could really have been built! It was a design that required nuclear power but was hobbled by the Cold War treaties and in my opinion, an apprehension of the risk of exposing astronauts to radiation, impacts, and the complexity of transiting extraterrestrial atmospheres. NASA is now returning to nuclear power and hopefully Congress will permit its use.
2011 A Space Odyssey: the Vengeance.
@@Me4-gc8qs Mistype.
I'm sorry just by seeing this title about what future we are headed into, there is no single possible way that you can't assume "Idiocracy"....I mean it's already started to happen! #provemewrong
Adam saying the words…”Tripping Balls” is all I needed to know we are the same age
I've always loved the Nostromo in Alien.
The only thing I don't like about the Nostromo is that we don't really have a sense of scale for it. We know how big the escape shuttle is so the Nostromo is quite big but it's also small compared to the huge refinery it's towing. For the Millennium Falcon we can actually get a sense of how big it is because we see the size of the cockpit and the ramps with actual people in the shot.
In the novelization of OUATIH (written by Tarantino), I think it's confirmed Cliff did in fact kill his wife along with other people over the course of his life. He's too good and comfortable at it not to have done it before.
idiocracy would be the likely outcome.
Then do your part to stop it. Don’t just sit back and watch it happen. Educate. Counter it. The forces for good can’t be less passionate than evil. That’s how they win
Too late
@@thanos879 Easy talking, which side owns most money and what talks in our world? its like u know nothing about our world and the puppet masters, "AI" is coming to schools and not to make the kids smarter, they spend billions to make people dumber, wake up.
Hunger games mixed with they live and possibly v for vendetta is our future.
v is far more likely
man, ya'll eat up the doom and gloom and ignore the progress we've made as a species?
@@exeggcutertimur6091 we have but we need to learn from our mistakes instead of repeating them. Their will be some capable of doing this but it will be tough in the transition but we will make it through.
At least V has a happy ending, but .gov's reaction to the 'rona was proof that it has the potential for becoming that level of dictatorial.
We are moving towards the Elysium future.
Firefly's Serenity
Everyone thinks they'd be Mal. In reality you'd be some Alliance wage slave like now 😂.
@@gmitchellfamily Even if you were Mal, you wouldn't want to be. It's truly remarkable Serenity never got caught (and probably would have if they'd gotten more seasons) with such an important Alliance black op program on board.
Idiocracy. We're definitely hurtling toward the sci fi future of Idiocracy.
no Event Horizon?
Oh good god!😳
I prefer to live in the world of Star Trek rather than the world of Star Wars.
You can argue over the aesthetics and story structure but the forms or government and social order are much more preferable in Star Trek than Star Wars
Yeah, it always bothers me that in Star Wars they are using animals for labor when they can build Death Stars etc. Makes no sense at all.
And as much as I love the aesthetic of Star Wars, those TOS ship designs are fantastic.
In the TNG-era Trek universe I much more sympathized with the Marquis and the Bajorans than I did with the Federation as a whole. That level of bureaucracy is not conducive to a free life.
@@EasyMac308 Conflict is often depicted for the sake of drama but should not be accepted as the end result of all human institutions. Facing challenges is how we grow.
I too would rather live in a Star Trek world than Star Wars even though I am a bigger fan of Star Wars but Star Trek (at least the ones made in the 20th century) seem more optimistic about the future and Earth is more utopia like than other sci-fi series. I would love to hear though how the world of Star Trek manage to create a better society without money.
The world is sinking, so obviously One Piece
With how the environment is going, we're heading towards the Bladerunner future, just without the replicants and space travel.
Was watching season 9 episode 12 of Mythbusters when this video came out I was at 13:25, it was Adam explaining the medium scale test of the myth that the Hitler assassination attempt would be successful if the room didn't have windows. I thought wow it's so cool years later this same guy is still teaching science and inspiring me.
I'm doing my best to make the world into a Solarpunk future, at least as far as I can reach. I think Solarpunk is the only like objectively good aesthetic/(it's almost becoming an ideology online these days) with good goals for the world, ya know?
"Headed to" lol. We're IN Neuromancer.
We're not since the Soviet union fell
Were definitely in 1984 already, Big Brother is watching our every move 😔
Booooommmmmm!!!
I see us moving into an Expanse type future.
We need to fight to prevent that..
All we need is the Epstein drive.
Lol considering how we treat the earth an all, i think the real fantasy we're moving towards is medieval fantasy. RIP
lol sounds accurate.
"we" as in the club members that in one year of private flights pollutes more than two people their entire life and now destroying the planet in turbo speeds in name of the climate they so desperately try to destroy for control.
The difference between anti-heroes and villains is literally just the point of view through which we experience them. Anti-heroes are typically protagonists while villains are typically antagonists. Historically anti-heroes were the exact opposite of heroes: clearly morally repugnant people like serial killers, but they were the protagonists through which we, the reader, experienced the story. Now-a-days anti heroes, the term, has gotten a lot muddier to encompass anyone who is a dirty fighter: someone who does bad things for their own internally moral reasons that sometimes have positive societal outcomes. However, I think my rule of thumb still holds merit: anti-heroes are typically protagonists (those who drive the story forward) and villains are antagonists (the characters who stand in the way of the protagonists).
My definition has always been that a villain does the wrong thing and the hero does the right thing (within the context of the story at least). An anti-hero does the right thing for the wrong reason. This also leaves open the possibility of the extremely rare anti-villain who does the wrong thing for the right reason. Ozymandias in watchmen is an anti-villain example. You could make the case for Killmonger in Black Panther being either anti-villain or anti-hero depending on which narrative thread and perspective you take.
There are plenty of examples of the villain being the protagonist, without much space to call them anti heroes. Dahmer, who portrays the actual serial killer, IS a villain. The protagonist of American psycho, is a villain. Walter White has a whole show about turning from a normal guy to anti hero, to villain. He ends up being undeniably, without a strain of a doubt, a villain. From his actions to his motivations, he is evil through and through.
Pablo escobar, again a real life monster depicted as the protagonist. Hes not an anti hero either. Villains absolutely can take the main role
Don Quichotte is an anti-hero and is a reaction to 16th century heroic/fantasy literature.
@@MrMegaMetroidmy point wasn’t so much over definition because even the modern usage of anti-heroes are still villains in my opinion. But, your examples do fit the definition of anti-hero as it was used when it was first coined in literature. So, my point still stands. It’s a matter of POV. In those examplse, they were the protagonists of the story doing villain stuff. That makes them anti-heroes in the truest sense. Just because the definition has expanded to include broody loners who sometimes do ultra-violent things to the bad guy (e.g. The Punisher) doesn’t change that. I don’t draw the same distinctions other people do from those characters anyway. They are still bad guys. Just because we get some cathartic excitement from their fictional exploits doesn’t mean we’d want them running around the real world or that we’d call them the good guys if they were.
Anti-heroes have some villainous qualities (e.g. the Punisher executes his enemies) and anti-villains have some heroic qualities (e.g. Magneto will sometimes listen to the X-Men).
One that seems eerily realistic is the world of Greg Ruckas "Lazarus" graphic novel series and roleplaying game. It's a world where the billionaires have taken over the world and are de facto kings, each ruling over their land which is structured like a corporation (except the employees are essentially slaves). Like how what used to be the eastern US is now ruled by the Hocks, which is essentially an allegory of the Sackler family. Most regular people have been genocided or died of starvation, but there are some left who are called "waste" and live in squalor in slums or out in the wastelands. It's not a happy future but its way more likely to happen than Star Trek
Realistically, we’re heading towards Brave New World, 1984, Fahrenheit 451 and Threads.
Fahrenheit 451 or 1984 (kinda there already).
We are going towards an engineered dystopia. It isnt even one of the fun ones. It is a boring and bad one devoid of romance.
How do i know? The people in charge keep telling us over and over again exactly what they want.
The Science Museum in London had a Lird of the Rings exhibition after the third film was released so I paid for tickets and went. When I walked into the room (just the one room) I thought "££££ for this????!!!!!". Over four hours later I walked out in a state of total mental saturation from seeing things like the 2 metre tall model of Orthanc, the engraved handle of Sauron's mace, the tooling on the leatherwork for Theoden's coat or the explanation of "bigatures" which were the miniature sets that so large that some were 100m across and in no way justified the term "miniature". The level of detail dedication and psychology were mind blowing. Much of the detail that was on show not only didn't appear in the film but could never have appeared. I remember seeing an explanation of some elements of Theoden's costume that were hidden under outer layers and would be seen only by the costume maker and Bernard Hill and Peter Jackson explaining that he put those details in because he wanted to create something with them. Bernard Hill was playing to role of a king and Peter Jackson wanted to make sure that when Bernard Hill put on those clothes he genuinely felt like a King. THAT is attention to detail and must have been incredible to work on.
Lird of the Rongs is my favorite mivoe
I yearn for a Star Trek future! I wonder what cultural upheaval happened in the transition from today to Star Trek? Criminality would probably die a violent death. In a land of plenty there would be no value to stealing diamonds since everyone can replicate them. Consumption of hallucinogens? Replicate them. Many would die of various over consumptions. Our baser instincts would have to be confronted. Would we become like the passengers in Wall-E? Fat and dopamine addicted, watching entertaining content? On the flip side our more lovely sides could flourish. How many artists have died with their art never expressed? This needs a longer discussion…
Dystopian Blade Runner future
The future is Star Trek for the rich: Judge Dredd for the rest of us. Neo-Medivalism in other words.
Sounds like the original Star Wars movies.
The Lord of the Rings extended editions was PEAK 'behind the scenes'! Think I watched them about 4-5 times. I was surprised that they did such an extensive behind the scenes for The Hobbit as well. Believe 4-5 hours for each film. It made me appreciate those movies a lot more, even with all its flaws.
Back in the dvd era, the behind the scenes for Star Wars and The Matrix came close but the way everything was structured with LoTR about the story, the casting, pre-production, sound, vfx, bigatures, score etc. felt like being in a candy shop! Need to watch again soon 😄
The USS Enterprise refit from the first 6 movies. Pure elegance
There is very little that can contend with that. Inside and outside. Also the way it’s depicted in the film, the way it’s operated. The procedures and the graduated pacing make that ship feel real.
Is it weird that I think of Cliff Booth as being just a hero hero not even an antihero?
Oh and I too think that everyone should have food
yes that is very weird. He has shown nothing admirable in the movie, he is not a person anyone should strive to be and has no redeeming quality to his character besides his supposed carefree attitude (which in and of itself is being criticised by the movie).
Even when he makes decisions that you would expect someone to make, like that one time he turned down sexual advances of a minor, it was made unmistakably clear that he didn't do that because he actually believes in the choice, but to avoid consequences later. So even the most basic decisions (decisions that deserve no praise might i add, we EXPECT someone to turn down a minor) are still done purely out of self interest, not because he actually feels appalled by her advances
@@MrMegaMetroid He does give a damn about his friend however. But that's it. He's badass and that makes him movie-likable. Plus the hippie punchout was fun.
@@bbb462cid giving a damn about your friend is a default state to be in, that isn't praise worthy or somehow redeeming literal murder and sociopathy what the fuck
@@MrMegaMetroid You seem mad at an imaginary man. I didn't defend the fictional person's character. Calm down before you do yourself an injury.
@@bbb462cid Im not sure how you got any indication of me being mad at anything here. I want to remind you that we are not on reddit and should be able to have a discussion about the objective qualities of a character. But in case you really can't read human emotions, i was bewildered at your claim that being a good friend makes up for being a murderer, not in any way shape or form did I make a remark about how i feel about the quality of the character. Hes a villain in my opinion, thats that. Im more perplexed at specifically your way of judging humans and how easy it is in your eyes to make up the character flaw of being a sociopathic murderer by being the most basic definition of a friend imaginable.
The Star Trek future is possible, remember they went through the WW3 / mass extinction / post atomic horror years before the happy years. Though the happy years only happened because the Vulcans showed up, which I don't think will happen for us. We could just end up somewhere between Mad Max and Waterworld which is a real self inflicted kick in the teeth.
If history, and Heinlein, has taught us anything, it's that we don't need Vulcans to save us. We can get there on our own if we make the right decisions.
Coincidently, shortly after graduating from University, studying Animation with a mind to work in Visual FX, I had made "less than serious" submission of my reel to Weta Digital - and to my surprise/horror, I got a response, paraphrased "We like what we see! Come to New Zealand and say hello."
I had next to no savings, and a baby girl on the way, but the truth is, I completely chickened out, gave up on my dream job and spent the next 16 years working in IT repair.
To this day, my wife remains convinced that in some alternate universe, I went on to become some sort of V/FX visionary 🤣🤣
Im sensing an Adam Savage Green Brothers team up in the future
Spaceballs has best spaceship
"We Brake for Nobody"
It’s the Huxlian future for sure. We’re well on the way to a brave new world.
Oh definitely.
Hi Adam keep on going with these I love most of what you do even the ones I am not too interested in I find something in it that I think I love to do that. Have you any advise on doing this building it’s someone with an amputation Thanks Clive from Burnley Lancs Uk. Would you also have worked on westerns?
The answer is easy. It's "Idiocracy". We're already half way there.
I am the exact same way about black mirror. It is so incredibly well made and way to close to the future. Not sure if you have mentioned it before but wondering if you have any brand addiction to power tools. Bosch 12v line was good for me as a painter/drywall, occasional construction - but now I feel like I am just collecting them, I just bought the vacuum...
At the moment we're right on track for the Idiocracy predictions.
Mad Max.
We are streaming straight into Mad Max.
only works for 8 months then you'll have no gas to fuel your death car.
That’ll happen after the Black Mirror days that fall apart.
@@cmdraftbrnI'd give it a couple of days.
4 years ago we couldn't get toilet paper because many people thought we'd run out. It was a self fulfilling prophecy
Edit: Toilet paper.
Toilet paper people.
We couldn't even manage toilet paper.
@@colinrussell2017 That's already 4 years ago? Ouch time flies
What about Discovery One from 2001: A Space Odyssey? Awesome ship!
That's a good question. I think it's a mix of "Demolition Man", "Escape from L.A"., "Soldier", and "Hunger Games"
Demolition Man is brilliant.
I remember watching many "post-apocalyptic" movies and thinking we weren't going to end up like that. But... I remember watching "Demolition Man" and thinking, "UH OH!!! That looks like something that society could very easily let happen!" After the pandemic... it feels like Demolition Man is a little closer to reality for us.
Seriously so many black mirror episodes are so close to reality it’s terrifying
Quite a few are extremely well researched and are inspired by technology that is similar
We are quickly approaching the Blade Runner future.
Anyone who thinks differently is kidding themselves.
The gods of capitalism require human sacrifice... who's next?
I have not watched all Black Mirror episodes due to the fear of witnessing the themes in the near future.
Some of them are already here. Some to a small degree. Some irrevocably…..
Looks like the future is astral mining! Rock and stone, lads!
But really, we are in a Cyberpunk Dystopian era. Just without the advanced cybernetics and holograms.
I really liked the long distance ship design in Passengers
it would be nice if we ended in Star Trek, but it seems like rather than the food generator utopia, we're closer to The Expanse-where Earth is over populated and filled with unemployment, some of them prefer to gamble their life in space.
Or, in non hard sci-fi: a Case 63 future, minus the time traveller and Martian ancestors.
I would say we’re already in the Minority Report levels of sci-fi. Only thing we’re missing is the pre-cogs
I still believe in the Star Trek future, because the cynicism required not to feels cowardly. But it's not unreasonable to anticipate Harlan Ellison's A Boy and His Dog.
Which sci-fi future are we headed into? Just pick a random capitalist dystopia and you won’t be far off
We are definitely headed towards Wall-E
1984
Spaceships Battlestar Galactica... I want star trek too, but were headed for Logans Run or more likely The Postman or Waterworld.
I'm an optimistic fella. I think the Sci-Fi future we're headed towards will be either the ones seen in "Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe" or "Fireball XL5."
In the future, spacecraft will have fins or strings - or a combination of the two.
Best wishes from Vermont 🍁
I still hate the Lazoon from FXL5. 🚀
Could still be Star Trek's future. Because in its timeline before the utopian society developed a nuclear third world war happened - which was an extrapolation of the developments after the second world war, because usually mankind needs to look into the abyss before it learns to be better.
I would love to see his take on the 'attack ships' from Blade Runner.
I think your imagination should fill that in. That was what Ridley Scott and Rutger Hauer’s point. That we wouldn’t believe the things and the horrors that man has made their slave replicants endure.
I hope that we end up in a Star Trek future where everyone works to make the human race better and everyone has what they need, but I think it will be more like Mad Max because now it’s profit first human well-being and the planet last, our home is on fire and they are pouring gas on it saying don’t worry everything will be fine.
I thought what you said about "Once Upon A Time in Hollywood" was amazing and uniquely right-on. All of Tarantino's films have an investigation of cool at their core, but "Once..." more so than many others. The figure of the stunt double is a special player in the cast of Hollywood legends. However, I like the designation of anti-hero for that character. Maybe meta-hero? Wasn't he just playing out the role that the industry had pushed him into? Or do you think there was a darkness of envy and regret that was at the heart of the character? Thanks for another great episode.
Right now our future looks like a bad mix between Idiocracy and Demolition man. Who you voting for? Cocktoe or Camacho?
Which future? Mad Max. Without question. 😂
Only if you wish it to 🤡
would you rather have mad max or waterworld? lol
One might say The Book of Eli, but we will have Fahrenheit 451’d all the books by then.
@@timeguy441 I'd take Mad Max over Waterworld. Like my feet on solid ground. 😂
WARHAMMER 40K. Tremble and weep, for in the grim darkness of the far future, there is only war.
Terminator
We are currently in 1984 mixed with idiocracy, but eventually with neurolink and Ai, we are going to become the borg
The striking vipers episode of black mirror happened in real life before the episode was out of filming
We're headed towards Alien (without the aliens) with a touch of robocop; where rampant capitalism and corruption runs amok.
I would say we’re headed more towards Ray Bradbury’s dystopian future of Fahrenheit 451. Everything is being banned left and right if something even so much as upsets a singer person (that would be the book burning), and everyone is so fixated on technology that a lot of kids don’t know how to talk to people and carry on a conversation. And the news is so restrictive now whether it’s facts or not just so it can fit which ever sides narrative.
I think that's the big "miss" that Bradbury had - he was stuck on the idea that you'd have screens lining your walls, not that you'd have one you'd carry with you everywhere.
This is the prequel to 'Ghost in the Shell.'
I met Adam in 2016 when my son cosplayed as Frodo in Orc armor from Return of the King. Adam told me “I’ve only seen the first movie”.
I was stunned to silence.
Interesting, but I agree, 2 and 3 never held my attention. I also only have seen Star Wars (aka Star Wars IV)
Saw the thumbnail and thought it was a Fallout power armor in the back
Close encounters spaceship resembles a French renaissance dress covered in LED lights.
I am with you the Falcon is Iconic
Star Trek is the one we aspire to.. 1984 and Neuromancer are the ones we're numbly being corralled in to!
We are headed straight for the future in the show 'Continuum'..
Came here to say exactly this. It's not a super-advanced future (aside from the time travel), but it's the political climate that is scary accurate.
you mean the happy or bittersweet ending?
I miss that show. 😢
@@TemporallyAnarchaic exactly
@@dibbidydoo4318 nope, lol the one the show starts on. I wish it was the one from the end. But instead ing we (as a society) are standing on the accelerator as hard as possible to get us there as guick as can. It's kinda crazy to me.
We're heading twords Elysium...
There is too much corruption and greed for Star Trek .
Adam thank you for coming out here gently supporting socialist idealism. You seem to have such a great grasp on the concept and the real problems that exist in reality. I also think everybody should have food.
If you understand anything about socialism you cannot truthfully say that you think everyone should have food. No other system has created such astronomical levels of mass starvation and militant death as socialism.