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In my opinion, the film that predicted our times best is "Soylent Green," and the author who did so was John Brunner, with his The Sheep Look Up and Zanzibar. What do you guys think?
I don't think we're eating people yet.gabriel alexander said:In my opinion, the film that predicted our times best is "Soylent Green," and the author who did so was John Brunner, with his The Sheep Look Up and Zanzibar. What do you guys think?
Sadly, we do seem to be headed that way.GTOM said:Idiocracy is very realistic. :(
gabriel alexander said:In my opinion, the film that predicted our times best is "Soylent Green,"
Well, we have overpopulation, the forrests are going away, soon enough we'll have to eat bugs, pollution is at a gargantuan rate, and, not so long from now, we will sun-bathe in Siberia in January. That's how.Tghu Verd said:How so, @gabriel alexander?
gabriel alexander said:Well, we have overpopulation, the forrests are going away, soon enough we'll have to eat bugs, pollution is at a gargantuan rate, and, not so long from now, we will sun-bathe in Siberia in January. That's how.
jim mcnamara said:Just do not buy land in Florida to pass on as an investment for your grandkids...
Uh ... you want to do a comparison of the coastal length in the Netherlands vs the rest of Europe plus America, to say nothing of South America? Dream on.essenmein said:About a third of the Netherlands is below sea level today, so its not an impossible task to hold back the ocean!
gabriel alexander said:In my opinion, the film that predicted our times best is "Soylent Green," and the author who did so was John Brunner, with his The Sheep Look Up and Zanzibar. What do you guys think?
Klystron said:How does this compare to modern society?
Exactly the point. Fans and critics of Brunner expect weighty cerebral Futurism. Harrison fans, despite the dark themes, 'just want to have fun' enjoying a good read. Can critics catch glimpses of Henry Kissinger in E. G. Robinson's portrayal of an old man who knows too much?Vanadium 50 said:Are any of these worse today than in 1973? If not, it's hard to call it prophesy.
Vanadium 50 said:3. "Your mileage my vary". I always thought that sea level was sea level, but in fact, different places see different changes. I don't understand this. In the words of Ralph Wiggum, "that's unpossible!" In the US, the Atlantic seems to be more affected than the Pacific, and most of that is in the mid-Atlantic states. Florida has a substantially smaller measured increase. The peninsula you should be worried about is Delamarva.
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