Science Fiction Films R Us

How many times have we said "we're living in a science fiction novel/ movie"?   Let's see how big a list of those films we can accumulate.  I'll start us off with a few of the obvious. ~jg

1984.. Big Brother is watching.  Except now it's Big Sis and those telescreens are about to go up everywhere. "if you want a vision of the future, Winston, imagine a boot stamping on a human face forever."

Social Engineering - William Whitten

Now information is interpreted by the sane individual in one way and by the insane, or mind controlled individual in another. Such as, the way that Orwell's book, 1984 was accepted as a warning of horrible future possibilities by most. Others however, those involved in the state control apparatus for instance, were intrigued in quite the opposite fashion.

The same is true in the case of the Milgram experiments. The information itself in neutral.  While Milgram proved a particular point about human psychology with regards to obedience to authority, his was an academic exercise, not a policy recommendation. Those with the position to effect social policy interpreted the Milgram information as a clue to further modes of social control—not as a warning to humanity.