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Reality increasingly has a science fiction problem too. Drone warfare and the HuggingFace attack come to mind.
A new adaptation of Ghost in the Shell just dropped, and not a moment too soon as society deals with AI hacking people's brains, making them confuse what's real and what isn't...
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A new adaptation of Ghost in the Shell just dropped, and not a moment too soon as society deals with AI hacking people's brains, making them confuse what's real and what isn't...
And apparently also much more explicit depictions of Kusanagi Motoko having lesbian cyborg sex than in any previous anime adaptation.
The other fiction people have derived a problem from is Game of Thrones. Its brand of "might is right" political realism in the context of warring kingdoms was narratively interesting but a poor choice for the voting public to start relating to.
People take the "vibe" from a work and assume the vibe is the meaning. Look at how things like Fight Club, The Punisher, and Wall Street are viewed in the general culture.
The Great Gatsby is a famous cautionary tale of the danger and pointlessness of unchecked pursuit of wealth. It's studied widely in US high schools. When the movie came out, all over the US people held "Gatsby Parties" which were 1920s themed parties focuses on ostentatious displaces of wealth.
No matter how profound and important the message, most people won't look beyond the vibe.
I still think explaining Spanner using Spaceballs and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy was funny but yeah, I had hoped it wouldn't be Minority Report and Blade Runner winning.
I’m cross with Musk for using Culture ship names while DOGEing. Take your stinking paws off my utopia, you damned dirty trillionaire!
http://archive.today/G4V7M Vercel says no to my browser, so...