[extropy-chat] Future friendly movies

[Dirk Bruere]

spike wrote:

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>>A great transhumanist movie would be based on a great plot in a
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>The closest thing we have to a future friendly fiction
>is the Jetsons cartoon from the 60s.  Star Trek was mostly
>about the future of warfare.  Every future-based movie
>or TV program I can think of was filled with conflict.  In
>the Jetsons it was just middle class Americana in a 25th
>century setting.  Of course it was comedy and a kid's show.
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The latest Star Trek series is anti-Transhumanist.
Of course, so was the original but it wasn't so noticeable back then, 
nor was ST an institution.
That might be one reason for its failure.

>Are there *any* examples of future fiction in which things
>worked out well all around?
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Not that I can recall.

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Dirk

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