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Is the world going towards Star Trek style earth or Blade Runner Cyberpunk culture?
I’m arguing with a friend and while I LOVE everything Star Trek I honestly think Star Trek’s view of earth a bit too much of a utopia to be realistic. Although I now they were in different Time eras, I think movies like Blade Runner shows a more comprable example of where we are headed, technology being completely infused with culture including the street and crime which today is getting worse in the cities where cyberpunk would start.
with things like cell phone sniffing, tumbling, organ black markets (soon to be cloned ograns), cable TV signal hijacking, pleasure dolls, Wifi leaching, hacking, cipher brute forcing, GPS, reverse engineering, software piracy and emulation becoming things everyday unskilled kids are doing , the world is going more towards blade runner than star trek, not to mention nasa is sitting on it’s ***.
be sure to state blade runner or star trek so I can have a count
I am a big fan of Star Trek also, but I do agree that it is an idealistic look at the future. From what I have read, Gene Roddenberry created Star Trek with the idea that future would be devoid of racism, sexism, and intercultural turmoil. That’s why TOS had a really diverse crew, with a black woman right after the Civil Rights conflicts, and a Russian man even during the height of the Cold War.
But yeah, I would have to agree with the BLADE RUNNER future. I think humans are just too greedy and opportunistic to ever be able to acheive a Utopian society on par with the Star Trek universe.
Trekking with MAPS and GPS by Peter Van Geit – 01