“The rotation of the earth is slowing down at a rate of point zero, zero, zero, zero, zero, zero, zero six miles per hour each day disrupting the chemical equilibrium in the human brain causing very irrational criminal behavior.”
That's only because the future is more in the past than it is now. Now the future is in the future, it's futuristicness is far more futuristic. That is, of course, until the futures futuristicness, becomes the pasts future futuristicness. Then it will be far less futuristic. Therefore, the future will become more futuristic than scientists originally predicted.
"Did you ever think the future's going to be really bad?" As a child of the 70s/80s, this question has a two-sided answer: on the one hand we thought the future might involve space travel and flying cars and cool robots, on the other hand we thought we might all die in a nuclear war. Either, or both, were possible. What we did not see was that "cool" technology would stagnate and that only computer-related tech would evolve; we saw an "internet" coming but we did not see the cancer that is social media or tech oligarchs. And oh yeah, that nuclear destruction version of the future? It never went away.
Yeah it did, no one can fire nukes anymore because that would hurt the bottom line. Can't have you nuking England, do you how much potential revenue is lost in such a move? Too much for the oligarchs of today to let happen, that's how much.
It's kind of edgy to ignore the complaints and sufferings of others. But I do think that the complaints are misdirected. Existence simply is profoundly negative experience and that's our personal dystopia inside us.
My predictions: Today's headline technologies of the future will progress much slower than expected. Something you don't even know exists yet will progress at an astonishing pace. And human nature will remain utterly unchanged.
His joke about everyone driving Fords in the future was a thing in the live action Thunderbirds movie where in the future 2010, came out in 2004) people drive Ford cars as endorsed by Ford for product placement. Sometimes comedy has already written itself especially when it’s depressing.
The crazy part is they're going hard into electric. If they can get their prices down on par with their ICE offerings we may very well all be driving Fords.
lol I still remember when Robocop came out and used the new Taurus as the old, beat up cop cars in Detroit. Fucking genius, even without the fact that the movie also featured a commercial for a new muscle car
@@gui18bif technically a beloved film in the form of BTTF Part 2 made cool and trendy things like self lacing Nike shoes in that movies case a norm in entertainment before iPhones were ever invented so there you go.
Zuckerberg's Second Life Avatar looks a lot less uncanny than the man himself. To reach the dystopian future, we first need to survive the dystopian present.
"This bullshit here..." I'm done with Zuck's/Elon's technocratic, dehumanizing, dystopian visions. I think it high time to saddle up, and head to the woods, learn carpentry and bushcraft, like the ending of Blade Runner as Deckard takes Rachel and flees into the wilderness. Thanks as always, Georg!
Carpentry and woodcraft are not skills that are handy surviving with technocrats. You have to beat them at their own game and acquire some high tech skills yourself. Says a guy living in the woods that knows which end of a hammer to hold.
I continue with my prediction of the last 30 years: The future will be pretty much like now, only slightly and gradually worse. I’ve been right so far.
@@Apjooz Well put. This is something that annoys me: older people thinking that the world is worse than it was in their 20s for example. Of course it is for them. They aren't in their 20s anymore.
@@polus2494 No, older people think everything is fine, and to the extent that it's not fine, it's your own damn fault, "millenials" or "zoomers" or whoever, they don't care, just as long as it's not them. In reality, people's standard of living has been gradually declining for decades, while made-up figures look as if it's on average doing OK. But nobody is average, the richest get richer, the median is going down. The 'middle class' as it were is dead.
Imagine, if you will... a future where everybody . That's right, a future where everywhere you look, people are . It can be hard to imagine, but together, we can make this a reality. It's uhh gonna be like the iPhone. Ladies and gentlemen... Welcome to the future.
Without this product you will now be treated as second tier citizen and going into shops or using our new blockchain currency is only possible if you are on the newest version of our product. Phizer merchant.
@@anothernumber6679 I bet in 2050 when all currency is digital, youll only be able to use it if you have the latest [newest and most socially accepted phone/thing possible]
I liked how the futurist books from the 50s and 60s predicted that future food would be all necessary nutrition reduced to pills. Instead of the food we have today designed by corporations, big soft puffy or crunchy or dank food-like substances with virtually all nutrients eliminated.
We get to pick the future we create, and all I want is to be healthy, happy, and stress free. Very little of what people are hoping for are any of these things. Uncomplicated happiness. Nothing to do, but work on getting happy.
The most accurate portrayal of the future I've ever seen was this educational game on the BBC Bitesize website back in the 00s. It was basically a continuation of the anti-youth stuff going on in Britain at that time: ASBOs, hoodie bans, no hanging around outside in groups. Set in 2020, it was almost exactly like life was in 2005, except everywhere you went there was a joyless adult telling you you weren't allowed to go there or do that. Bang on.
Your prediction *is* unfortunately likely and possibly it might end up being worse or not quite exactly but close enough to being more dystopian-ish than anything anyone thought or guessed that we as "an advanced species" would ever experience. We have a long way to go, and possibly not a whole lot of time to get wherever and whatever our best selves are. Great video.
Yes sir I can't wait to my retirement in 2055 where I get to bask in the knowledge that I now get to kick up my heels serving as a rendered down mucilaginous paste that's affixing insulation onto a hedge fund manager's holiday home's duck house.
Whenever i see a prediction of our future it gives me the creeps. No matter if they say that we will live in a corporate (Zuckerberg) nightmare where no individualism and privacy is allowed anymore (or extremely expensive), or if they say we will be living in caves again but on a inhospitable hellscape of a planet. Both "visions" are equally terrifying.
I agree. I think the most terrifying aspect of it all is that no matter what the future looks like, it won't be us that determines it. The future and the present are not made by the masses but rather powerful governments and corporations deciding to change. The future is starting to look less and less like something we create, but more so something that happens to us.
It makes sense Zuckerberg invented the metaverse because it's exactly the kind of thing that an alien or an AI would calculate as being appealing to humans but actually isn't
Neal Stephenson invented the metaverse in 1992. Philip Rosedale helped get the first widespread one working almost 19 years ago. Zuckerberg is just nicking the concept 30 years later.
Didnt every dystopian fiction with a corporation as the villain predict this? I think people just thought we would (as humans) stop it from happening with some kind of "revolution". i used to have hopes that the trajectory would change....
@@xenos_n. I disagree. Seeing is believing. Most people are blind to the inner workings of the world and only have their eyes set on the next thing hot off the press. We live in an age of instant gratification, entertainment, distraction, and theatrics. We also live in a world where most people are too comfortable with convenience and the safety net of 'average' and predictable life. If people truly saw the dystopia that was on the horizon, and it's not that they didn't believe it was gonna happen; it's that they handballed the responsibility to do anything about it to someone else, because hey, if I don't do something, /surely/ someone else will?
Most fun I ever had was just taking off in my van, me and my dog Friday, and just head out in the wild to camp for a few weeks. Do some fishing, hiking, sleeping under the stars. Just the two of us. No other human voices to endure.
George... have you looked at the news lately? If you wrote a description of what's happening right now in the world you might be surprised to find out it reads like the synopsis of a dystopian novel already. The future is now as they say.
Most news agencys are hellbent on telling us how fucked we all are, be it because of global tensions or (the absence of) transgender people. It's either that or completely useless fluff pieces. It has been so for decades. Criticise the fearmongering, don't become a victim to it.
@@catgod7924 You must not have been paying attention to the powers governments around the world have been claiming for themselves during the past two years.
@@fredbloggs5902 there's natural gas which currently in the US is twice the share of source of renewables. Honestly though to be more green we should build more electric trains and buses, which have the added benefit minimizing traffic.
The underlining current to all the videos on this channel, which is even more clear in this particular one, is the actual existing dystopia of a market society. Not even the particularly cool and flashy ones the various sci-fi operas we enjoy promised us. As a funny-looking german philosopher with a penchant for wearing round glasses once said "That things are "status quo" is the catastrophe".
-Is the digital watches comment a nod to the Hitchhiker's Guide? -First and Last Men is a trippy book. It's fascinating in its scope, and I'm glad I read it, but I marvel that that book got published.
I'd love for you to come back to doing movie stuff, you're in my top 3 best movie channels on entire UA-cam! I miss that kind of content. Super insightful, knowledgeable, entertaining and funny
50 million survivors living in caves, 1000 years from now: "wow can you imagine early 2000s, when there was like 8 billion people living on the planet"
Published in 1930, no less. I read it a couple of years ago. It has some very impressive insights for its time, and some rather laughable ones. An excellent read for anyone interested in early SF.
I can totally see you in your smoking jacket riding atop a monster truck. The Mad Max future. A mixture of "it ain't half hot mum" and Zardos. Ronnie Corbett's Sorry theme booming from tinny speakers. Any way I hope it's got nudity. Right ?
What you are talking about are what we (in RPG circles) call High Technology, Low Society. I.E a society where technology is hyper advanced but society is still stuck at... well. Here.
"I started having these dreams about this...walking dude." Funny reference to Stephen King's "The Stand;" the "Walking dude" being Randall Flag, aka the Anti-Christ. As to the future, all I know is that if the 20th century was a human meat-grinder, the 21st century will probably be a New and Improved human meat-grinder, set to puree. Or a BBQ. Maybe both.
Mark is the LAST person to be deciding VR trends. If he can divide people, he certainly can get another bad idea to become mainstream. This needs to be stopped NOW
“Scientists are saying the future is going to be far more futuristic than they originally predicted”
“The rotation of the earth is slowing down at a rate of point zero, zero, zero, zero, zero, zero, zero six miles per hour each day disrupting the chemical equilibrium in the human brain causing very irrational criminal behavior.”
There's a delay in my reflection.
I need to watch that again.
That's only because the future is more in the past than it is now. Now the future is in the future, it's futuristicness is far more futuristic. That is, of course, until the futures futuristicness, becomes the pasts future futuristicness. Then it will be far less futuristic.
Therefore, the future will become more futuristic than scientists originally predicted.
I've got soul, but I'm not a soldier.
"Did you ever think the future's going to be really bad?"
As a child of the 70s/80s, this question has a two-sided answer: on the one hand we thought the future might involve space travel and flying cars and cool robots, on the other hand we thought we might all die in a nuclear war. Either, or both, were possible. What we did not see was that "cool" technology would stagnate and that only computer-related tech would evolve; we saw an "internet" coming but we did not see the cancer that is social media or tech oligarchs.
And oh yeah, that nuclear destruction version of the future? It never went away.
Not gonna lie facebook makes me miss the cold war sometimes
@@russbennett5470 You're in luck mate. Just look at the country below Russia.
@@umpteenexpression530 And, in some cases, Russia. And whatever that Iranian woman was doing for the Brits. And the Chapmans. Spying never ended.
@@michaelkitchin9665 lol Iranian here.
Yeah it did, no one can fire nukes anymore because that would hurt the bottom line. Can't have you nuking England, do you how much potential revenue is lost in such a move? Too much for the oligarchs of today to let happen, that's how much.
I love how mark's VR avatar is so more convincing as a human being than the whatever the real physically version is made of.
lol. we're fucked.
Brutal
Yes
Human suit technology isn’t very advanced yet.
I want a magic robe that contains never ending beer
That sounds soggy but you do you.
oh shit it's you
Sounds like a utopia to me.
Hamm's even. He must be stateside.
We arent headed for a dystopia. We are already here, we just dont want to admit it
@Peter T where's the wh40k bit?
its just not a dystopia for everyone yet, and so the people who can eat every day dont care about the people dying en masse every day
every generation has their edgy nihilists that sing from the same book. Nothing said here is profound or even original.
It's kind of edgy to ignore the complaints and sufferings of others. But I do think that the complaints are misdirected. Existence simply is profoundly negative experience and that's our personal dystopia inside us.
@Peter T William Gibson said something close to that. The future is here now, it just is not evenly distributed yet.
"It would take a hydrogen bomb to get the stains out."
Unconventional but not impossible. It's the only way to be sure.
A neutron bomb, of course, would kill the people, while leaving the stains intact. 🤔
I would suggest, as a precaution we start with the MOAB and progressively use stronger "solvents" to cleanup the stain
My predictions: Today's headline technologies of the future will progress much slower than expected. Something you don't even know exists yet will progress at an astonishing pace. And human nature will remain utterly unchanged.
I remember when this was a film channel.
Not that I am complaining but I remember, lol.
Yeah, but I always liked the asides.
George Rockall-Eurasia has never been a film channel.
HIPTANG!
It’s literally always been a Hiptang marketing campaign.
remembering things?
you'll grow out of it *_; )_*
His joke about everyone driving Fords in the future was a thing in the live action Thunderbirds movie where in the future 2010, came out in 2004) people drive Ford cars as endorsed by Ford for product placement. Sometimes comedy has already written itself especially when it’s depressing.
Everyone drove Audi's in I Robot due to a similar deal.
The crazy part is they're going hard into electric. If they can get their prices down on par with their ICE offerings we may very well all be driving Fords.
lol I still remember when Robocop came out and used the new Taurus as the old, beat up cop cars in Detroit. Fucking genius, even without the fact that the movie also featured a commercial for a new muscle car
People use watches and phones for product placement now, basically
@@gui18bif technically a beloved film in the form of BTTF Part 2 made cool and trendy things like self lacing Nike shoes in that movies case a norm in entertainment before iPhones were ever invented so there you go.
Zuckerberg's Second Life Avatar looks a lot less uncanny than the man himself.
To reach the dystopian future, we first need to survive the dystopian present.
Hello fellow HU mans.
- Zuckerberg
He lives in the Uncanny Silicon Valley!
"This bullshit here..."
I'm done with Zuck's/Elon's technocratic, dehumanizing, dystopian visions. I think it high time to saddle up, and head to the woods, learn carpentry and bushcraft, like the ending of Blade Runner as Deckard takes Rachel and flees into the wilderness. Thanks as always, Georg!
The Industrial revolution and its consequences something something
maybe not the worst idea indeed
Carpentry and woodcraft are not skills that are handy surviving with technocrats. You have to beat them at their own game and acquire some high tech skills yourself. Says a guy living in the woods that knows which end of a hammer to hold.
@@WallaceAJenkins have been a disaster for the human race.
@@WallaceAJenkins it's a bloody disaster. Now they're attempting once again (using technology and capital) to dictate how we should live our lives.
I continue with my prediction of the last 30 years: The future will be pretty much like now, only slightly and gradually worse.
I’ve been right so far.
Well you are decomposing. Of course it's going to be worse.
@@Apjooz Well put. This is something that annoys me: older people thinking that the world is worse than it was in their 20s for example. Of course it is for them. They aren't in their 20s anymore.
Bro. Your only 33 tho.
@@polus2494 No, older people think everything is fine, and to the extent that it's not fine, it's your own damn fault, "millenials" or "zoomers" or whoever, they don't care, just as long as it's not them. In reality, people's standard of living has been gradually declining for decades, while made-up figures look as if it's on average doing OK. But nobody is average, the richest get richer, the median is going down. The 'middle class' as it were is dead.
@@SianaGearz uh huh
Imagine a digital boot stomping on a human face forever.
You forgot the part where some rich asshole makes crypto with every boot stomp.
"Nice job, team!"
"The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them down between the millstones of taxation and inflation." - Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
Imagine, if you will... a future where everybody . That's right, a future where everywhere you look, people are . It can be hard to imagine, but together, we can make this a reality. It's uhh gonna be like the iPhone. Ladies and gentlemen... Welcome to the future.
The future is now
Without this product you will now be treated as second tier citizen and going into shops or using our new blockchain currency is only possible if you are on the newest version of our product. Phizer merchant.
Don't forget the hiptang
@@anothernumber6679 I bet in 2050 when all currency is digital, youll only be able to use it if you have the latest [newest and most socially accepted phone/thing possible]
Fucking eh. The Rockall-Schmidt always nails it. And the humour is genius.
"If you want a picture of the future imagine a boot stamping on a human face-for ever"
I want to turn "that meeting could've been an email" up to 11. -Mark Zuckerberg
The transition from that shuttle window out of Zuck's brow is inspired
Where?
@@jamiemccallum9055 8:43
I liked how the futurist books from the 50s and 60s predicted that future food would be all necessary nutrition reduced to pills. Instead of the food we have today designed by corporations, big soft puffy or crunchy or dank food-like substances with virtually all nutrients eliminated.
There is Soylent.
And a million flavors of candy to make you feel better about your crappy jobs.
The Ideal: Nutrition without food.
The Real: Food without nutrition.
We get to pick the future we create, and all I want is to be healthy, happy, and stress free.
Very little of what people are hoping for are any of these things. Uncomplicated happiness. Nothing to do, but work on getting happy.
The most accurate portrayal of the future I've ever seen was this educational game on the BBC Bitesize website back in the 00s. It was basically a continuation of the anti-youth stuff going on in Britain at that time: ASBOs, hoodie bans, no hanging around outside in groups. Set in 2020, it was almost exactly like life was in 2005, except everywhere you went there was a joyless adult telling you you weren't allowed to go there or do that. Bang on.
Max Headroom was a bit prophetic about the internet and the melding of criminal justice and entertainment.
Still giggling over "Google glasses"
We've come so far that our internet overlord is baby noises
Would be funny if it weren't so horrific
Your prediction *is* unfortunately likely and possibly it might end up being worse or not quite exactly but close enough to being more dystopian-ish than anything anyone thought or guessed that we as "an advanced species" would ever experience. We have a long way to go, and possibly not a whole lot of time to get wherever and whatever our best selves are.
Great video.
"You will own nothing, and you will be happy"
No I won't.
Piss off youtube?
"Mark, you were meant to bridge connection between many people, not to take advantage and ruin their lives!"
I wish I could say that to his face.
You can't expect tech nerds to run with a conscience. They're all socially awkward disasters.
There'd be no point. Even a xenomorph would have more empathy and understanding than Zuckerberg.
Yes sir I can't wait to my retirement in 2055 where I get to bask in the knowledge that I now get to kick up my heels serving as a rendered down mucilaginous paste that's affixing insulation onto a hedge fund manager's holiday home's duck house.
Whenever i see a prediction of our future it gives me the creeps.
No matter if they say that we will live in a corporate (Zuckerberg) nightmare where no individualism and privacy is allowed anymore (or extremely expensive), or if they say we will be living in caves again but on a inhospitable hellscape of a planet.
Both "visions" are equally terrifying.
I agree. I think the most terrifying aspect of it all is that no matter what the future looks like, it won't be us that determines it. The future and the present are not made by the masses but rather powerful governments and corporations deciding to change. The future is starting to look less and less like something we create, but more so something that happens to us.
26 years I've been in this industry. Such wonders we could create, if only we weren't such a bunch of goobers.
It makes sense Zuckerberg invented the metaverse because it's exactly the kind of thing that an alien or an AI would calculate as being appealing to humans but actually isn't
Neal Stephenson invented the metaverse in 1992. Philip Rosedale helped get the first widespread one working almost 19 years ago. Zuckerberg is just nicking the concept 30 years later.
You're my favorite person sir. I appreciate you.
I'm glad I found this channel.
that fact that a dystopia was over the horizon and people didn't see it is what pisses me off the most
I saw it coming. But it's worse than I predicted.
We were always going to end up here, it was inevitable.
Didnt every dystopian fiction with a corporation as the villain predict this? I think people just thought we would (as humans) stop it from happening with some kind of "revolution". i used to have hopes that the trajectory would change....
A lot of people saw it, it's just the masses didn't want to believe it would happen.
@@xenos_n. I disagree. Seeing is believing. Most people are blind to the inner workings of the world and only have their eyes set on the next thing hot off the press. We live in an age of instant gratification, entertainment, distraction, and theatrics. We also live in a world where most people are too comfortable with convenience and the safety net of 'average' and predictable life.
If people truly saw the dystopia that was on the horizon, and it's not that they didn't believe it was gonna happen; it's that they handballed the responsibility to do anything about it to someone else, because hey, if I don't do something, /surely/ someone else will?
This video is starting to age well.
Always look forward to your content
Most fun I ever had was just taking off in my van, me and my dog Friday, and just head out in the wild to camp for a few weeks. Do some fishing, hiking, sleeping under the stars. Just the two of us. No other human voices to endure.
George, you are always a good listem to cheer me up. Thanks!
A cashless society will be a true dystopia.
Dreams about a walking dude?
My life for yours! My life for yours!
I don't think we need to wait for the future. We are already living in dystopia.
6:24 Exactly. The main reason they are coming out with the Metaverse is because they can't figure out how to make better cell phones.
George... have you looked at the news lately? If you wrote a description of what's happening right now in the world you might be surprised to find out it reads like the synopsis of a dystopian novel already. The future is now as they say.
I think we're most closely aligned with Brave New World these days.
The world's looked like a William Gibson novel for years.
Most news agencys are hellbent on telling us how fucked we all are, be it because of global tensions or (the absence of) transgender people. It's either that or completely useless fluff pieces. It has been so for decades. Criticise the fearmongering, don't become a victim to it.
@@catgod7924 You must not have been paying attention to the powers governments around the world have been claiming for themselves during the past two years.
We already live in a dystopian future.
"Cars that use energy from the gas plant down the road, rather than the one under the hood."
Except EVs are twice the efficiency, and electricity is increasingly sourced from renewables.
@@fredbloggs5902 there's natural gas which currently in the US is twice the share of source of renewables.
Honestly though to be more green we should build more electric trains and buses, which have the added benefit minimizing traffic.
@@krunkle5136 The fact remains that whatever the original source of the energy, EVs produce HALF the emissions of ICE vehicles.
@@fredbloggs5902 sure they're much better.
I still don't get why he said hood instead of bonnet.
@@krunkle5136
His UA-cam demographics probably show a majority American audience, and everyone know what he means.
"Lord Droid"
Yes, thank you for that, I can take the future much more cheerfully now
I watch your videos in wonder and amazement. But all I remember is the badass smoking jacket.
Lasers, 8 o clock, day one! Love the Time Bandits reference, plus the soundtrack excerpts.
Haven't heard an OT-8 joke since I escaped Scientology.
The inevitable recession of the future pisses me off so much that by the time it happens I’ll be like “took long enough!!”
i was living in fear until Georg
said ’this BS here’ thanks bro :)
You’re probably right-oh boy.
Amazing video!
Thanks a lot man!
The underlining current to all the videos on this channel, which is even more clear in this particular one, is the actual existing dystopia of a market society. Not even the particularly cool and flashy ones the various sci-fi operas we enjoy promised us.
As a funny-looking german philosopher with a penchant for wearing round glasses once said "That things are "status quo" is the catastrophe".
At least Dune is based 8, 000 years in the future, unlike the short sighted space 1999
24,370 years in the future.
The calendar in Dune starts from the formation of the Spacing Guild (16,200 AD)
And the comic 2000 AD.
atleast in Dune they had the spice...
@@leonefurlan137 replace spice with beer. Overdub it if you have to so that they say beer instead.
@@lemdixon01 can you fold space with beer? I guess it's possible... (traveling without moving)
That sigh is the last thing anybody needs to say about the phrase, _Rob Zombie's 'The Munsters'._
Sheri Moon as Lily tells you everything you need to know about that movie.
If you're dreaming of the walkin' dude, I hope to God that I start to dream of Mother Abigail when the time comes..
The VR Meta will be loaded with commercials. Just imagine having a VR meeting with constant pop-ups and flashing ads, yuck!
Wasn't this the villain's plan in Ready Player One?
Love the nod to Time Bandits at the beginning! ❤️❤️❤️
I have been to future, very confusing. Lava lamps everywhere.
My man drinking the Hamm's, from the land of sky blue waters. Underrated beer, IMO.
The Walkin' Dude abides.
“This bullshit here...” lol just a perfect description 👏🏻
-Is the digital watches comment a nod to the Hitchhiker's Guide?
-First and Last Men is a trippy book. It's fascinating in its scope, and I'm glad I read it, but I marvel that that book got published.
I thought it was a nod to Time Bandits. There sound effect/music in the beginning was from that movie
I love the immediate “Time Bandits” reference. “Lasers! Eight o’clock. Day one!”
And “The Stand” reference at the end…
You drinkin Hamm's? Liked and subscribed. A man of a refined taste.
Uh oh Georg, you're slipping from video essay into avant-garde video prose poetry.
Love the reference to The Stand at the end!
I'd love for you to come back to doing movie stuff, you're in my top 3 best movie channels on entire UA-cam! I miss that kind of content. Super insightful, knowledgeable, entertaining and funny
Hopefully coming December there'll be another Hiptang propoganda campaign punctuated with short movie picks.
Nah this George is better
50 million survivors living in caves, 1000 years from now: "wow can you imagine early 2000s, when there was like 8 billion people living on the planet"
Why talk about dystopian future when we can talk about the dystopian present?!
Excellent video. Thought provoking even.
September 13th, 1999. Never Forget.
The book is Last and First Men, by Olaf Stapledon. It was actually very influential on later sci-fi writers.
Published in 1930, no less. I read it a couple of years ago. It has some very impressive insights for its time, and some rather laughable ones. An excellent read for anyone interested in early SF.
Sometimes I forget George lives in the same time period I live in.
He doesn't. Georg actually lives 8 minutes ahead of us.
Future will probably be 80% bad 20% good
We're all fucked. This is the real horror for halloween, the future is gonna get us
Damn, I've never felt so represented in my life, you should run for office here.
I can totally see you in your smoking jacket riding atop a monster truck. The Mad Max future. A mixture of "it ain't half hot mum" and Zardos. Ronnie Corbett's Sorry theme booming from tinny speakers. Any way I hope it's got nudity. Right ?
with Lord Humonguous face mask?
The absurdity of the most sophisticated Man on youtube pulling a can of beer out of his smoking jacket... that fills me with no small amount of mirth.
I'm having those dreams too. And one about an old lady
The Walkin' Dude already has the power back on
It's got electrolytes...
We need to get over this great unrest. Only in later generations will we improve once again. It is too late for us, but we are alive.
What you are talking about are what we (in RPG circles) call High Technology, Low Society. I.E a society where technology is hyper advanced but society is still stuck at... well. Here.
Or in literary terms, Cyberpunk.
We as a species are collectively screwed. The future will be a living nightmare.
Oh nice, I just finished the new RLM Halloween Best of the Worst and then this appears, non-stop youtube content
"Her" is one of the best dystopian movies I have ever seen. Others didn't realize it was dystopian, apparently.
Solarpunk!
We can have if we try.
"I started having these dreams about this...walking dude." Funny reference to Stephen King's "The Stand;" the "Walking dude" being Randall Flag, aka the Anti-Christ. As to the future, all I know is that if the 20th century was a human meat-grinder, the 21st century will probably be a New and Improved human meat-grinder, set to puree. Or a BBQ. Maybe both.
I love Time Bandits.
Love this man. Truly a gem.
We're already in a dystopia if you hadn't noticed by now
Until they make a machine that spits in my fries they can keep the future
The Zuckerbot is performing within design parameters
0:54 Oh Lord, is that a can of Hamm's, the absolute finest of beers?!
The Beer Refreshing!
I live in Minnesota home of Hams beer! I didn't know it was international. Best beer to have with a grilled cheese sandwich
Mmm Tangerine Dream Rubycon in the background, my favorite! :)
Mark is the LAST person to be deciding VR trends. If he can divide people, he certainly can get another bad idea to become mainstream. This needs to be stopped NOW
Bro, we're fucked lol.
Thanks for the King reference! I will counter with, and in a climatologically based way, "There's a storm coming"
"Baby can you dig your man?"