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.
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.