Star Trek: The Deep Space Nine episode that predicted a US crisis [bbc.com]

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• Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I noticed this with cyberpunk stuff, too. The genre has been incredibly prophetic. It just sucks that it’s all the stupidly bad shit and not a single one of the super cool sci-fi things.

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  • Throbbing_Banjo@midwest.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I read this comment on the toilet using a pocket-sized computer that everyone I know owns, and we’re all addicted to.

    Nobody’s buzzing around in flying cars, but if they were, they’d be so ubiquitous we’d just say “meh, we should have jetpacks by now.”

    I do agree with you that we’re getting all the Bad Stuff though.

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    • kautau@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      This is very true. I use iSH on my phone to run python scripts and ssh into servers, I use Working Copy to make git commits from the toilet or my bed. Like for all intents and purposes, my phone is a cyberpunk “deck,” but I suppose cyberpunk is literally named “The Dark Future” for a reason, considering all else that is going on.

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  • zaphod@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Is it prophetic, or do we have a techno-capitalist elite that looked as those books as a roadmap rather than a cautionary tale? Hmm…

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    • Odinkirk@lemmygrad.ml ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      “Meanwhile, Black Mirror presumably got back to the work of its horror-based arms race, as the show continues to try to find a doomsday prophecy that tech giants might still view as a warning and not a corporate benchmark for [next fiscal quarter].” – AVClub

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  • Etterra@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Oh yeah. You know after World War III it’s not going to be warp engines that get invented.

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    • Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      But we might have neutrino (?) bombs; those theoretical bombs that can just vaporize people and leave buildings and infrastructure intact.

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  • danielquinn@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    We should be reading/watching/sharing more solarpunk then!

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    • Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The problems lie in the “punk” part. Just like cyberpunk’s prophetic bad stuff isn’t the cyber.

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• vexikron@lemmy.zip ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Currently homeless due to crime, longtime Star Trek fan here.

  Yep. Mhm.

  Waiting to be beamed out any time.

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  • catharso@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You the crimer or the crimee?

    Nevermind. I wish you all the best! Prosper etc. 🖖🏼

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    • vexikron@lemmy.zip ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Uh… another victim of capitalism.

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• deegeese@sopuli.xyz ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Avery Brooks was so good, a shame it seems like he retired.

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  • hamid@startrek.website ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I want to be retired when I am 75 years old too.

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• OpenStars@startrek.website ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Just wait till HG Wells Time Machine comes true and a bunch of almost blind underground mole dwellers predate upon the idiotic surface dwellers who never think past the needs of today. Oh.

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  • Taleya@aussie.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    wake me up when we start eating the ~~elons ~~ eloi

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• CeruleanRuin@lemmings.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Oh look, another post in 2024 about that one episode that takes place in 2024. What an original think piece.

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• leopardboy@midwest.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It didn’t “predict” anything.

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