Saw people talk about the 2014 Robocop reboot which made me realize something weird about modern science fiction (at least the movies) oddly the tech always works. Compare the OG police/military robots (like ed209) vs the new ones where they can actually patrol well and identify threats etc. And just how strange that actually is, esp when you have any experience with modern tech. Random musing about how modern science fiction is failing us a bit I guess. Not sure how much of a modern thing this is however, after all even if fight club the bombs actually exploded (in the books they do not).
Not sure you can blame SF for not being totally tech-accurate in all aspects. Many stories posit something that’s working correctly (FTL travel, AI) in order to explore other themes.
Granted, I haven’t seen the latest Robocop so I don’t know if it continues the satirical theme of the first movie or if it’s leaning into the action part. In general movies do a terrible job of conducting the in-depth discussion of issues that books (or graphic novels, granted) can. For example, the last chapter of Simmon’s Hyperion puts the entire book into a whole new light.
Thinking about it, for the majority of people most SF is from movies, and the remaining majority from the sort of ersatz “Golden Age” right-wing crap that Baen puts out.
Yeah, I was more musing, think it depends a lot on the genre of SF, in star trek, most of the stuff works unless people blast it, in star wars nothing works in the first 3 movies.
Saw people talk about the 2014 Robocop reboot which made me realize something weird about modern science fiction (at least the movies) oddly the tech always works. Compare the OG police/military robots (like ed209) vs the new ones where they can actually patrol well and identify threats etc. And just how strange that actually is, esp when you have any experience with modern tech. Random musing about how modern science fiction is failing us a bit I guess. Not sure how much of a modern thing this is however, after all even if fight club the bombs actually exploded (in the books they do not).
Not sure you can blame SF for not being totally tech-accurate in all aspects. Many stories posit something that’s working correctly (FTL travel, AI) in order to explore other themes.
Granted, I haven’t seen the latest Robocop so I don’t know if it continues the satirical theme of the first movie or if it’s leaning into the action part. In general movies do a terrible job of conducting the in-depth discussion of issues that books (or graphic novels, granted) can. For example, the last chapter of Simmon’s Hyperion puts the entire book into a whole new light.
Thinking about it, for the majority of people most SF is from movies, and the remaining majority from the sort of ersatz “Golden Age” right-wing crap that Baen puts out.
Yeah, I was more musing, think it depends a lot on the genre of SF, in star trek, most of the stuff works unless people blast it, in star wars nothing works in the first 3 movies.