Anyone who likes Tech yet NOT into Sci-Fi here?

[doug in albq]

I want to love Sci-Fi, but most of it is created/produced very poorly.

GREAT Sci-Fi seems much harder to make than great "drama" or great "thriller" or great "horror" or great "hip-hop"

That beign said, my all-time 3 favorte movies are Blade Runner, Brazil, and The Matrix (not the sequels).

I have no intent to put anyone on the spot, nor to sound critical, which I'm not, but if you feel like discussing it...

I find it interesting that anyone could love tech, but not Scifi. Is it the speculation included in such stories, you don't care for? And/or does it take you out of your comfort zone in how you regard reality or does it have to do with not liking the prospect of change?

Of interest might be the book Future Shock (1970) not a Scifi novel, not fictional, but a book written about how humans deal with the accelerating rate of technical change and how it forces us to alter our perception of reality at an uncomfortable rate with the possible effect of losing our grip on reality.

I read Future Shock in 1984, when I was 15 years old. That book affected my entire future life. One thing that i remember being said in the book, was that in the future everything would be disposable. You would not fix your TV, you would trash it when it broke, you would not fix a computer, you would trash it when it broke....those times are here today...seen any TV or computer repair shops doing well, or doing at all these days?

 

[D.T.]

I want to love Sci-Fi, but most of it is created/produced very poorly.

GREAT Sci-Fi seems much harder to make than great "drama" or great "thriller" or great "horror" or great "hip-hop"

That beign said, my all-time 3 favorte movies are Blade Runner, Brazil, and The Matrix (not the sequels).

I'd say good sci-fi has a good story, even without the sci-fi elements. The great sci-fi films have timeless stories about the human condition, love, life, what it means to be human, our place in the universe. You just toss some sci-fi elements onto a page, into a screen, and wrap it up in thinly portrayed characters, pointless plot, no insight, yeah, it's pretty bad (though some is intentionally bad )

You picked three _fantastic_ films for your all time faves

 

[Gutwrench]

I'm not really into tech much, I just program. I'm not into Sci-Fi either.

 

[Huntn]

I read Future Shock in 1984, when I was 15 years old. That book affected my entire future life. One thing that i remember being said in the book, was that in the future everything would be disposable. You would not fix your TV, you would trash it when it broke, you would not fix a computer, you would trash it when it broke....those times are here today...seen any TV or computer repair shops doing well, or doing at all these days?

Yes we seem to be heading in that direction with tech. Maybe not the best comparison, but as a kid, I remember my Mom and Aunt darning socks, and we were middle class. Now you throw them away when they get a hole. There is a trend.

 

[decafjava]

Funny xkcd for this thread:
http://xkcd.com/1563/

I agree "Space Fights: The Scary Ghost" was a disappointment. As was the remake of "Space Trip: That Guy is Angry."

Also like "Name Query for a Medical Practitioner" and "The Retribution Team"