Although it is a fictitious futuristic game, there was once an instance in which this reality may have been real. After the Little Boy and Fat Man where dropped in Japan, the two world superpowers where on the brink of nuclear war.
The Fallout series can seem to have parallels to our fears at the time. I also saw all the things created in this new world that did not exist, these imagined materialities of the game are not that from reality. We are working towards self-driving cars and the military has exoskeletons. This clip speaks to what I mean in the game.
Can you guys think of other examples of media which has these imaginaries which are coming to life?
Quote from imgur: "the Fallout universe can be viewed as a stylized representation of the future through the eyes of those living in the beginning of the Atomic Age"
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Your question immediately makes me think of the very concrete example in which an episode of The SImpsons ("Bart to the Future") aired in 2000 predicted a Donald Trump presidency. While Donald Trump hasn't been elected POTUS (yet?), it's interesting that a simple, brief scene which was meant to be satirical has nearly come to fruition.
ReplyDeleteThe Simpsons not only predicted a Trump presidency; they predicted that Trump would have destroyed the American economy by 2030, when Lisa Simpson is elected following his time in office.
While it seems impossible for media, especially cartoons which are a medium not many people take seriously, to accurately predict the future 15-30 years in advance, it will be interesting to see the results of the American election, and just how well the writers for this episode of The Simpsons understand American ideologies and the thought processes of the citizens.
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