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[-] Yodan@lemm.ee 63 points 10 months ago

Idiocracy/Dont look up/1984/Judge Dredd

[-] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 16 points 10 months ago

My bets on Robocop style corporate dictatorship until terminator style annihilation occurs.

Star Trek was never on the cards.

[-] MinFapper@startrek.website 12 points 10 months ago

Actually, star trek might be. In their lore, things got a lot worse before they got better.

[-] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 49 points 10 months ago

You better start believing in cyberpunk dystopia, Miss Turner. You're in one!

Not sure which one. But we already pretty much check all the boxes of cyberpunk.

[-] Free_Opinions@feddit.uk 38 points 10 months ago

Idiocracy.

Birth rates are down everywhere and the majority of the people left making lots of babies are not the ones you wish would be having them. Being virtuous and on the "right side of history" means nothing if those values die with you and are not passed to the next generation.

[-] Grimm665@lemm.ee 7 points 10 months ago

This is not the first time i've seen sentiments similar to this around here. Just know this is an extremely elitist and racist viewpoint, and is one of the core arguments in favor of eugenics.

[-] Free_Opinions@feddit.uk 7 points 10 months ago

I don't see what's elitist or racist about it. It's just an observation of how things are. I'm not advocating for anything here.

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[-] AmidFuror@fedia.io 24 points 10 months ago

WALL-E. We just don't have a way to escape yet, but the rest is happening regardless.

[-] dragonfucker@lemmy.nz 7 points 10 months ago

That's a very optimistic view of our future.

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[-] theywilleatthestars@lemmy.world 21 points 10 months ago
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[-] WindyRebel@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

L for Luigi?

[-] neidu3@sh.itjust.works 18 points 10 months ago

A combination of Snow Crash and Idiocracy

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[-] Platypus@lemmings.world 17 points 10 months ago
[-] Chozo@fedia.io 12 points 10 months ago

Given that we've already had a few suicides caused by (or at least exacerbated by) LLM chatbots, I think we're already there.

[-] blackstrat@lemmy.fwgx.uk 16 points 10 months ago

Lots of good suggestions so far, Brave New World and Don't Look Up would be right up there for me. But my #1 is this...

The Machine Stops (PDF) Written in 1909 so out of copyright, this book is so ahead of its time it makes remarkable reading today. The amount of things predicted that describe the modern day is incredible. It's also not that long, so well worth a read.

[-] JohnyRocket@discuss.tchncs.de 16 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

100% no doubt The parable of the sower and subsequent book. I read that book - started reading it - in June this year and read it over about a month. It was very creepy to be reading a sci fy book set in the future that is now my present and while it is not as bad right now as Octavia Butler makes it out to be, we are definitely heading there if drastic action is not taken immediately.

Edit: the books in order: (Only two, sadly she died while writing the third but still both worth reading, there isn't a clif hanger at the end) https://www.octaviabutler.com/parableseries

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[-] psoul@lemmy.world 13 points 10 months ago

I do believe that a lot of aspects of The Ministry for the Future by K.S. Robinson have chances of becoming true.

The deadly heatwave in south Asia, governments going rogue and playing with geo engineering on their own, climate refugee camps and the general sense of too little too late.

But the book is fairly optimistic, so hopefully, people of the world getting together and accepting a new paradigm will come to be true.

[-] 7uWqKj@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago
[-] hungprocess@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 10 months ago

I could see the Golgafrinchan telephone sanitizer situation coming to pass.

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[-] invertedspear@lemm.ee 10 points 10 months ago

Parable of the Sower

It was written as near future fiction anyway. In fact the dates mentioned in the book start out in our past. Just the catalyst events haven’t quite happened yet. Add a few years to the dates and I could see us heading towards that kind of societal break down.

[-] rothaine@lemm.ee 4 points 10 months ago

This book is haunting. It made me seriously consider buying a gun. If I could convince my wife to read it, we'd probably have an armory by now.

[-] napfkuchen@feddit.org 10 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Horizon Zero Dawn: Total extinction by the 2060s because some mad, narcissistic Elon Musk guy overestimates himself and fucks it up for the whole world? Doesn't sound too far-fetched to me right now.

[-] PennyRoyal@sh.itjust.works 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

The Water Knife by Paolo Baccigalupi is pretty on the nose for the near future of the southern US

[-] psoul@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

It thought that Vegas was an abomination, a testament to the vanity of mankind but that book made me understand that Phoenix has twice as many people, is bigger though sure, is a little wetter on average and should hold that title.

How is this one of the cheapest cities to live in in the US? Why are we moving the micro chip industry there?

[-] Shortstack@reddthat.com 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Brave New World

In some ways we’re already living it

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[-] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 7 points 10 months ago

I'm going to go obscure here and say that the world of 2077 from the television show Continuum

It ran for a few seasons; I enjoyed it for the most part. Not the best, not the worst. But definitely in terms of the premise where Corporations have essentially bought out failing governments, leading to an advanced surveillance state, and anti-corporate terrorists, etc... etc...

[-] T00l_shed@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

A combination of all the worst bits of the worst ones

[-] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 6 points 10 months ago

Dune.

Not the cool parts, the Butlerian Jihad.

I'd have gone with WH40Ks war with the men of iron but there's absolutely no chance we reach golden age of technology levels before we fuck ourselves.

[-] kalkulat@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

"Lack of respect, wrong attitude, failure to obey authority. The Farm, immediately. - death sentence in Ellison's book 'A Boy and His Dog'

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[-] zod000@lemmy.ml 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Lots of good responses in this thread so far, but I keep thinking of the newest Gibson trilogy with regards to "the jackpot" where the majority of the population dies from a series of "not quite the big one" pandemics and climate issues and society is taken over by the kleptocracy. I love Gibson's books, but I wish he would stop accurately predicting our demise.

[-] bufalo1973@lemmy.ml 5 points 10 months ago

If we don't dodge that bullet, Years and Years. Or Neuromancer.

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[-] rothaine@lemm.ee 4 points 10 months ago

Can we choose? I'll pick the Matrix. Yes we are slaves to the machines, but at least they give us happy dreams

[-] toiletobserver@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

The Simpsons

[-] MiDaBa@lemmy.ml 3 points 10 months ago

I've gotta go with Mad Max here. Between the words oil obsession, rising aggression and dumbing down of society I can't see it going any other way.

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