Posted on 03/30/2012 7:45:41 PM PDT by DogByte6RER
Which Science Fictional Scenario Is Most Likely to Happen in Your Lifetime?
Science fiction is full of fantastic and horrifying scenarios, many of which seem like they could come true any time. But which of them is really going to materialize — and which is most likely to happen in your lifetime?
Vote in our poll for the science fictional scenario that you're most likely to live to witness for yourself:
Which Science Fictional Scenario Is Most Likely to Happen in Your Lifetime?
Global Pandemic
Moonbase
World War III/Nuclear Apocalypse
Suspended Animation
The Singularity
Something Else (See Comments)
Martian Colony
(NOTE: Go to the IO9 link provided here. Scroll down on the page and then vote your choice.)
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I vote for moon landing, a real one, not one faked on a historic (Fatty Arbuckle, Edna Purviance, Eric Campbell and others) Burbank movie lot.
No doubt World War 1 was considered “science fiction”, until IT HAPPENED.
No doubt the same for WW2.
So why do they consider the use of weapons that exist and a war on a scale that’s already happened twice science fiction?
When you can answer that question, you will prove (to at least me) that you UNDERSTAND liberals.
It now appears that that may happen not because robots become super intelligent but because humans are rapidly becoming dumber.
Thanks DogByte6RER.
If not restricted to movies, then “1984” by George Orwell; the other one that comes to mind would be a total takeover by the Borg.
Re the Manchurian Candidate. Oh, you mean that a brainwashed American becomes a secret communist tool and gains the presidency of the U.S.?
Never gonna happen.
Say what? It already has?
Time to move it from Scifi to “Reality TV”.
How the hell did the comrades slip that one by us?
George Orwell “1984” from Bibliotheque ~ Virtuelle
http://sami.is.free.fr/Oeuvres/orwell_1984_1.html
bttt
None of it is going to happen so long as the current crop of idiots is in power--regardless of party. We are headed into a new Dark Age.
The Science Fiction imagery of the '50s and 60s was glory and grandeur, since then the images have been increasingly degeneration and apocalypse. The 'vision' of the future has shifted, and until it shifts to something more positive, the future won't be.
I'm still waiting for the affordable flying car and that free nuclear power generated electricity...
Don't worry, the Moller flying car is just around the corner, LOLOL!
Think I first read about it 48-50 years ago and I think they're still in business with no product to sell yet.
"The Mule" shows up.
Moonbase (China).
I’m thinking more like “Bladerunner.”
Going with the trifecta of-
Soylent green
Thx 1138
Harrison Bergeron
Gator, you read my mind! That was the first thing I thought of when I saw the title. LOL
I absolutely, positively, 100% agree with that. At least once a week something happens that reminds me of Idiocracy.
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