Quote from: M.10rda on July 18, 2026, 04:16:30 PMI know. Al, like Tupac, remains staggeringly prolific for a dead guy, and his three-dimensional solid hologram continues to tour this summer.
Quote from: AndyC on September 21, 2011, 07:50:09 AMQuote from: AndyC on September 20, 2011, 08:13:03 PMWas just reminded of another peeve today. When you order something online and they notify you that your order has been shipped and give you a tracking number, when in reality all they've done is sent the information to the courier and gotten a tracking number. The order, meanwhile, might not even be filled, much less shipped.
Further to that, I hate placing an order to a company claiming to be Canadian, dealing in Canadian funds and operating a .ca website, then finding out my package is being shipped from New Jersey. Patriotism aside, I prefer a Canadian company because of the short delivery time. I order from a Canadian company so I can get my package in a couple of days. It took this company a couple of days to ship the order, in spite of sending me a tracking number right away, and now it's coming twice the distance I expected, with a border in the middle that is undoubtedly going to cause the sort of delay I was specifically trying to avoid. Bloody liars.

Quote from: Justy on March 31, 2008, 08:50:13 PMI really think that its difficult for any Sci Fi to be prophetic today. Back in the 40's and 50's sure. Today so many people are connected, exchanging ideas and reading the work of the others that the average Sci Fi fan of today is far more educated than his 50's contemporaries. I think that pretty much every theory has been brought into Sci Fi in one fashion or another. Robots, AI, space travel, dimensions, genetic manipulation... ho hum. We are so spoiled. Yeah you can say some authors have creative takes on things, but its hard to say where today's prophets can lead in a direction. With technology you see and project a logical progression of how it be changed and adapted, there are things that we would like to do... but those things that we want to aren't really prophetic. Larry Nivens Ringworld is an excellent piece of prophetic Sci Fi that was a far out concept, but that came out over thirty years ago. I don't consider Gattica prophetic because all those Big Brother concepts were already espoused by Orwell. The Matrix was pre-saged by Neuromancer. So any honest prophetic movies are the old ones, but even those writers were often already in scientific fields and were trading on inside information. So really the list is limited for honest prophetic movies.
