{"id":8005,"date":"2010-01-28T13:52:35","date_gmt":"2010-01-28T12:52:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=8005"},"modified":"2012-04-26T09:22:21","modified_gmt":"2012-04-26T08:22:21","slug":"ten-of-the-most-interesting-sci-fi-futures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/top-tens\/ten-of-the-most-interesting-sci-fi-futures\/","title":{"rendered":"Ten of the most interesting sci-fi futures"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Starfleet_Academy-thumb-550x252-15492\"<\/a>They may not be pretty, but they’re certainly iconic and evocative. And besides, our world isn’t much better – countries are renaming national landmarks after distinctly average films, lunatics want to blow themselves up on our trains, and Joanna Lumley has recently assumed command of the Gurkhas, so give the poor people of Tyrell-era LA a rest, will you? Below, we list ten of the best and most impressive depictions of the future in science-fiction cinema and television.<\/p>\n

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\"2002_the_time_machine_015\"<\/a>10. The Time Machine<\/strong>
\nReleased:<\/strong> 2002
\nDirector:<\/strong> Simon Wells, Gore Verbinski
\nStarring: <\/strong>Guy Pearce, Samantha Mumba, Mark Addy<\/p>\n

Labour might have you believe that this is the future we’ll have if Cameron gets into power, but there is certainly a class war going on in this horrible version of the world. And worst of all, even 800,000 years after the present day, we still can’t manage to get rid of Samantha Mumba.<\/p>\n

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\"EFC\"<\/a>9. Earth: Final Conflict<\/strong>
\nAired:<\/strong> 1997-2002
\nCreator:<\/strong> Gene Roddenberry
\nStarring: <\/strong>Lisa Howard, Von Flores, Robert Leeshock<\/p>\n

Something should have twigged with the world governments when the Taelons began growing houses – houses<\/em> – on the East Coast of the United States, and implanted their security operatives with a distinctly creepy bio-weapon. While hovering above Earth in their ghost ship. Yeah, they’re here in peace, sort of.
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\"mini-caprica_city.jpg\"<\/a>8. Caprica<\/strong>
\nAired:<\/strong> 2010-Present
\nCreator:<\/strong> Ronald D Moore, David Eick, Remi Aubuchon
\nStarring:<\/strong> Esai Morales, Eric Stoltz, Paula Malcolmson
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Sex, drugs and rock and roll cease to be so much of a burden on the NHS when it all goes virtual, thanks to a certain Mr Daniel Graystone. Caprica’s actually not a bad place on the surface – homosexuality is completely tolerated, and they have excellent tailors. Shame about all the racial discrimination and the impending nuclear holocaust, though.
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\"2001-a-space-odyssey\"<\/a>7. 2001: A Space Odyssey<\/strong>
\nReleased:<\/strong> 1968
\nDirector:<\/strong> Stanley Kubrick
\nStarring: <\/strong>Gary Lockwood, Keir Dullea, William Sylvester<\/p>\n

Richard Branson will, in the future, be flying commercial flights to the Moon (which he’ll buy) staffed by waitresses in cocktail skirts. Meanwhile, the impending effects of the ASBO will soon be felt when our kids, sick of Britain, decide to go and cause havoc in the form of giant space children. Fear them.<\/p>\n

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\"039_8892~Planet-of-the-Apes-Posters\"<\/a>6. Planet Of The Apes<\/strong>
\nReleased:<\/strong> 1968
\nDirector:<\/strong> Franklin J Schaffner
\nStarring: <\/strong>Charlton Heston, Roddy McDowall, Maurice Evans
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Even after humanity is enslaved and our civilisation destroyed, tourists will still come to the Statue Of Liberty. And let’s face it, who doesn’t want to kiss an ape? Oh that’s right, everyone. We probably have it coming, though, what with locking them up in cages for their entire lives and all.<\/p>\n

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\"babylon5\"<\/a>5. Babylon 5<\/strong>
\nAired:<\/strong> 1994-1998
\nCreator:<\/strong> J Michael Straczynski
\nStarring: <\/strong>Bruce Boxleitner, Claudia Christian, Jerry Doyle<\/p>\n

Once that pesky civil war was out of the way, and that group of bastard ancient races defeated, and the Drakh plague eliminated, we imagine that Earth might be relatively pleasant to live on in the Babylon 5 future. Assuming the neo-fascist telepath police are out of the way as well, of course. On second thought…<\/p>\n

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\"Blade<\/a>4. Blade Runner<\/strong>
\nReleased:<\/strong> 1982
\nDirector:<\/strong> Ridley Scott
\nStarring: <\/strong>Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Edward James Olmos<\/p>\n

Los Angeles isn’t the nicest place on Earth to live now, let alone when some jumped up millionaire decides to build artificial people and construct a whacking great pyramid in the middle of Compton. It’s also one of the more beautifully realised dystopias on screen, beautiful being a relative term.<\/p>\n

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\"gattaca\"<\/a>3. Gattaca<\/strong>
\nReleased:<\/strong> 1997
\nDirector:<\/strong> Andrew Niccol
\nStarring:<\/strong> Ethan Hawke, Uma Thurman, Jude Law<\/p>\n

It’s a little bit scary how close we potentially are to this situation, where social class is determined by genetic traits and upward mobility is limited by the strata that you were born into. Alright, so we’re not quite there yet, and all this tinkering with genetics is well and good, but all it takes is some far-right maniac to get into power and each one of us will end up looking like Ethan Hawke.<\/p>\n

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\"coruscant3\"<\/a>2. Star Wars<\/strong>
\nReleased:<\/strong> 1977
\nDirector:<\/strong> George Lucas
\nStarring:<\/strong> Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher<\/p>\n

People are in love with the grimy world of Star Wars, for some reason. We’re not entirely sure why, if you want dirty roads and crowded markets, try Camden on a Saturday morning. That being said, the universe building in this film franchise is second to none, and while we wouldn’t want to live on Coruscant, it still looks pretty cool.<\/p>\n

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\"starfleet_academy_06\"<\/a>1. Star Trek<\/strong>
\nReleased:<\/strong> 1966
\nCreator:<\/strong> Gene Roddenberry
\nStarring:<\/strong> William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley
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Who wouldn’t want to live in the Federation? They’ve got unlimited food for everyone, clean power, a very pleasant disposition in the general populace and good-natured leaders. As opposed to what we have now, which is overpriced slop served at fast food joints, impending ecological catastrophe, and streets filled with kids who have a peculiar talent with knives. Beam me up, Scotty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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