Best Depiction of near future Sci-Fi

[Argent]

So started watched Amazon Prime's new show The Peripheral. It got me thinking about what shows do a good of showing new technology mixed into the real world. For all of Prime's missteps with stuff like Rings of Power they do a decent job on a lot of shows especially their near future sci-fi shows. Two of their shows I think do a good job of blending sci-fi into the real world.

Upload

It is a couple of seasons now with a basic plot of people uploading their Ghosts or selfs into a digital afterlife. What really shows is a mix of tech that I could see coming soon. The self driving cars are the main one with them basically being what I picture a Tesla to be in 10 to 20 years.

They also show stuff like 3d printed food and how one of the characters never had real chicken before do to the price. It is some I could see happening once 3d food come around. The rich will be able to pay hobby farms while the rest of us eat fancy printed mush.

Also the way the afterlife is monetized is something I could see happening with the current path the internet and games have taken.

The Peripheral

Is a new show that I just started. Overall it is about someone that gets involed in a world wide conspiracy. It stars a down on their luck women with a vet brother and a mom with cancer. The brother makes money by play vidoe games witha fancy Meta system.

The big thing again is 3d printing. The main character works at a 3d printing franchise. This something I think we will see very soon. The idea is that you buy a product oine and it gets printed out your local shop for pickup. They also show that pharmacies do the same in this world.

They also do the same upgrades with electric cars and bikes.

But the way they show them in the world with new 3d shops in the same run down strip mall as the local liquor store. This is the biggest thing becasue to many Sci-Fi show like to make every new and shinny when instead most of the time the new and shiny stuff just get shoved in a building from 1980.


So what shows do you guys think have done good job of showing what the world may look like soon?

 

[Val the Moofia Boss]

The life shown in cyberpunk shows and movies has come true, just not quite in the aesthetically interesting way they were predicting. People have become figurative cyborgs, looking down at their phones that shoot information into their brains 24/7. You are required by law to buy very expensive corporate products such as very expensive health insurance, and corporations can turn off your access to your bank account and your access to the economy anytime they want to based on what they consider to be thought crime. We live in the dystopia cyberpunk fiction warned us about, but without the cool toys like spider mecha or flying cars.

 

[bintananth]

It's a book: Ceres

The POV character is a pre-teen girl who was genetically engineered for microgravity on a space station orbiting the Moon. Most of it describes what she and three adults experienced during the 15.5 month Hohmann transfer on a space ship that's not much more advanced than what we can build today.

It ends with her in a space suit sprawled out on the surface of Ceres watching a sunrise.

 

[Carrot of Truth]

The life shown in cyberpunk shows and movies has come true, just not quite in the aesthetically interesting way they were predicting. People have become figurative cyborgs, looking down at their phones that shoot information into their brains 24/7. You are required by law to buy very expensive corporate products such as very expensive health insurance, and corporations can turn off your access to your bank account and your access to the economy anytime they want to based on what they consider to be thought crime. We live in the dystopia cyberpunk fiction warned us about, but without the cool toys like spider mecha or flying cars.

The original Deus Ex is the best depiction of a near future cyberpunk dystopia.

 

[Bassoe]

Upload

It is a couple of seasons now with a basic plot of people uploading their Ghosts or selfs into a digital afterlife. What really shows is a mix of tech that I could see coming soon. The self driving cars are the main one with them basically being what I picture a Tesla to be in 10 to 20 years.

They also show stuff like 3d printed food and how one of the characters never had real chicken before do to the price. It is some I could see happening once 3d food come around. The rich will be able to pay hobby farms while the rest of us eat fancy printed mush.

Also the way the afterlife is monetized is something I could see happening with the current path the internet and games have taken.

Meh, Tom Scott did it better.

the best depiction of a near future cyberpunk dystopia.

Leonardo of Biz's You Will Be Happy.