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OSX Using Happy Dude
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From the list below, which future would you prefer to live in (and which do you think is more likely) :

A) 1984 (Big Brother is not just on Channel 4)
B) Brazil (bureaucracy plummets to new depths)
C) Silent Running (Tree-hugging not possible)
D) Waterworld (water, water everywhere and not a drop to drink).
E) Soylent Green (cannibalism is de rigure)
F) Bladerunner (Do you dream of electric sheep?)
G) Logan's Run (Run...)
H) The Time Machine (Meet the Morlocks)
I) Equilibrium (drug-taking is manditory)
J) Fahrenheit 451 (Book ? I hate book! Book is stupid! I burnz books)
K) Mad Max (go totally maad)
L) The Postman (go totally postal).
M) The Fifth Element (Bruce drives a taxi).

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Imma vote for society not crash and burning


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Well I see it like the Time-machine, mankind will disappear and give place to other species, maybe evolutions from humans, maybe not (But it's a distant future)

And for the close future I would say :
K) Demolition man

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T) Travis supreme ruler of universe

Note: The above I didn't say, your just crazy.

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none they all suckez

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i'll take the future in which most the men die off, leaving the woman lonely and plentiful


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what if you're one of the men who dies off... eh?

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Quote: "i'll take the future in which most the men die off, leaving the woman lonely and plentiful"

There was a movie like that, but I forgot which one.

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Soylent Green - What you don't know can't hurt you....

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K. Zaphod Beeblebrox for President! (And enjoy a martini at the end of the Universe)

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Quote: "what if you're one of the men who dies off... eh?"


Bwahhahaha, me?

Quote: "There was a movie like that, but I forgot which one"


It was a slider's episode, where the men held contests on how many woman they can impregnate in one month To rebuild the male population^_^


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L) Cube

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Thats not a film about the environment/future government.

Personally I think we're heading towards something between Bladerunner and Soylent Green - no food, but plenty of rain.

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Quote: "Thats not a film about the environment/future government.

Personally I think we're heading towards something between Bladerunner and Soylent Green - no food, but plenty of rain"


I never said it was...

I don't know about you, but I highly doubt we'll end up feeding off eachother

Rain.. well.. your call


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Waterworld: Then I can finally see the ocean

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Id prefer one like Demolition Man... that way I could conquer it in a day .


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You forgot one:

The Matrix - blessed are the ignorance, for they make the best audience!

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who wrote Brazil?

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You also forgot Gattaca, which I think is by far the most likely. There's no way man is going to avoid messing with DNA and gene splicing for that long.


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The Time Machine I've read that book too many times... (3)

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And who could forget Avalon?

Then again, does anyone else here even know Avalon?

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Posted: 20th Jan 2005 07:48 Edited at: 20th Jan 2005 07:48
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Quote: " You also forgot Gattaca"


No! No, no, no, no, NO!

No Gattaca! That kind of life would be too boring, tedious, and much less risky (hence the boredom) for words. And knowing my luck, if I were to be born in a world like that, my parents would be tree-hugging-hypies and have me natural born with the worst defects

Then I'd be shunned from society, run from my home, and end up being a janitor at some rocket launching company.

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Blade Runner.

Chinese food still exists, flying cars.

As long as I can be a higher up, and not a special.

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No, I'm sure you'd be one of the replicant slaves on Mars.


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First, Fifth Element.

Next, Equilibrium.

Finally, Mad Max.


Why were Farenheit and Equilibrium posted seperatly? They're essentialy the same concept .

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Quote: "It was a slider's episode, where the men held contests on how many woman they can impregnate in one month To rebuild the male population^_^"


hah yeah i was about to say that, i remember that, they got put into grade a of men, and when they walked down the street when they first got there all the chicks were like omg men we love them!! reminds me of me walking down the street.

i like the sound of 1984, not cause of big brother but cause its the 80s, things like zelda game and watch, nintendo entertainment system next year, and songs like "hungry like the wolf".

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Have you read 1984? the future they live in is terrible! Hey, add HL2(combine invasion) to the list!


I guesse I would vote for bladrunner, because everthing was pretty cool in that movie.

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1984 had the Alphas and Betas and all. It was a good book, and by the author of Lord of the Flies (great book).

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You also must add Back to the Future II

But I wouldn't mind a Gattaca universe. Or a Brazil one--- although I can't see the cities overrun by long tubes.


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yeah hover boards and flyign cars, bttf 2 was the greatest.

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Quote: "You also forgot Gattaca, which I think is by far the most likely"

Haven't seen it, so it wasn't included.

Quote: "First, Fifth Element."

Forgot about that one.

Quote: "Why were Farenheit and Equilibrium posted seperatly? "

Because they are different films. Ones about book burning the other is about the repression of feelings.

Quote: "Have you read 1984? the future they live in is terrible!"

Duh! Thats why its included.

Quote: "Back to the Future II"

It doesn't meet the appropriate criteria.

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Otherland... When computer get powerful enough for REAL VR then I don't see how people wouldn't want to exchange the mundande lives for high adventure in VR.

Imagine living in ancient Egypt, Homeric Greece, or in a far distant future.

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the time machines. I would like to see the future, and i don't think i can live forever...

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yeah none of you guys can, ur not jesus like i am.

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you guys are forgetting about the best future ever - Futurama!


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Yes, but that features the adventures of Fry, Leela (hmmm) and Dr Zoidberg...

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your point being?


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The list I give features films that include a lot of detail about the environment/government/society in general - Futurama doesn't feature a lot of that - apart from the ball of garbage episode.
Besides its a cartoon.

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Quote: "Forgot about that one."


It kicked ass


Anyways, what's Fry doing out of Pitch Black

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Quote: "It kicked ass"

Poor small donkey...

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Quote: " 1984 had the Alphas and Betas and all. It was a good book, and by the author of Lord of the Flies (great book)."

No it isn't

Although both great authors William Golding and George Orwel are not the same people I think you mean Animal Farm (also a great book)

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I'd have to say Halo, the black guy's cool, and we'd all get guns! . And we could have little blue girls in our heads.

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Quote: "And we could have little blue girls in our heads."



How about Tron?

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Back to the future was great, but mad max...just for the extreme a**se kicking...on bungies, with chainsaws !...damn id love to try that.
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That was Mad Max 3:Beyond the Thunderdome (and a boring film it was too).

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William Golding wrote Lord of the flies.

1984 was written by George Orwell.

MD5 Checksum not match.

Anyway, I havent read 1984, nor seen the movie.

Squidgy what about Metropolis by Fritz Lang?

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Never seen that, unfortunately - only pictures...

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