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In the original short story, Jones the dolphin was also a heroin addict. Just FYI. (Screenshot: Alliance Communications)
It’s hard to make the cyberpunk genre feel fresh nowadays. Its tried-and-true tenets of a dystopian future overrun by corporations and technology have, after all, been true for a while. Of course, cybernetic implants aren’t
de rigeur in the real world so we can’t have secret chainsaws in our hands, but we already have plenty of technology that helps augment human abilities. We can’t stick a wire into our heads to send our consciousness into a computer to hack it, but plenty of people can hack computers from across the globe, no skull input required. When so much of the genre is real, what does cyberpunk have left to offer us?
The pandemic in question in the movie, Nerve Attenuation Syndrome (NAS), doesn’t get a clear explanation in the film. Instead, it’s spoken of in vague terms, the apparent result of exposure to too much technology. “What causes it? The world causes it. This causes it! This causes it! This causes it! a doctor named Spider (Henry Rollins) laments at one point, gesturing to various bits of tech. INFORMATION OVERLOAD! All the electronics around you poisoning the airwaves.”
Spider s rant and the general idea that technology makes people physically sick echoes prior concerns about cancers resulting from cell phone usage or the more recent (and easily debunkable) 5G conspiracies. More generally, it hints at concerns of exposure to the endless stream of information present on the internet. While certain elements of
Johnny Mnemonic makes a long distance phone call (Image: TP)
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Seeking a Friend for the End of the World (2012)
This sci-fi rom-com set in March 2021 sees the Earth faced with just three weeks before total annihilation by an unstoppable asteroid.
Steve Carell’s Dodge Petersen seeks a friend for the End of the World in Keira Knightley’s Penny Lockhart. Fingers crossed we won’t be facing this as we come out of the pandemic.
It’s All About Love (2003)
Joaquin Phoenix and Claire Danes star in a 2021 set sci-fi romance featuring multiple clones and an Earth devastated by climate change. In reality, global warming continues to be an issue as we enter this year, but hopefully, we’re still a long way from legal human cloning.