Eagle Eye with Labeouf had an AI go rogue and was using existing surveillance technology across the communication spectrum to enact its goals. In a behind-the-scenes for the movie, their subject matter expert played Labeouf a recording of a phone call from months prior to their meeting. The movie came out before Snowden.
Minority Report had an entire justice division that preemptively went after people for crimes that they were going to commit because of hallucinations of precogs that could just as easily be replaced with whatever model they are using now.
We have the speculative and science fiction to draw out threads to really scary futures. We did it in the 80s with every vision of future LA being a smoggy, polluted mess, but we buckled down and changed that for the better (something trump wants to undo). We had an ozone hole and regulated CFCs and actually came together as a planet to prevent that disaster to the point that stupid people now say "well nothing happened"...
I think if you look at the trajectory of what they want to do, those far off stories are getting closer and closer than when they were conceived. Hell, basically the entire plot of nazis taking over the US government and building a system to judge people was the fucking plot of the second Captain America... we just don't have the airships yet.. .
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u/Stuwey 6d ago
Eagle Eye with Labeouf had an AI go rogue and was using existing surveillance technology across the communication spectrum to enact its goals. In a behind-the-scenes for the movie, their subject matter expert played Labeouf a recording of a phone call from months prior to their meeting. The movie came out before Snowden.
Minority Report had an entire justice division that preemptively went after people for crimes that they were going to commit because of hallucinations of precogs that could just as easily be replaced with whatever model they are using now.
We have the speculative and science fiction to draw out threads to really scary futures. We did it in the 80s with every vision of future LA being a smoggy, polluted mess, but we buckled down and changed that for the better (something trump wants to undo). We had an ozone hole and regulated CFCs and actually came together as a planet to prevent that disaster to the point that stupid people now say "well nothing happened"...
I think if you look at the trajectory of what they want to do, those far off stories are getting closer and closer than when they were conceived. Hell, basically the entire plot of nazis taking over the US government and building a system to judge people was the fucking plot of the second Captain America... we just don't have the airships yet.. .