If it were up to me, every movie would be set in an era without mobile phones and Google, every movie would put the hero in a situation where he could not call in an air strike via his BlackBerry but would actually have to slit the terrorists' throats and strangle their frothing dogs with his bare hands.
I think this fellow makes a good point. The practical aspects of life are so much more straight forward for people these days, and that doesn't make for good stories. Or perhaps it just makes for very different stories we haven't worked out how to tell yet.
The second, obviously.
Willem / 2:44am / 12 January 2008
The second, being hard sci-fi!
No faster than light travel, no cryo-freezing, no handwavium/nano/.
Just lonely lonely space travel, just like the days when we roved the high-seas in big sail ships.
Then it could be all about pirates, guns, big ships, booty, corrupt governments…
I should stop with the diet coke already.
Laurence / 2:12am / 4 February 2008
You could have romantic comedies, where the spaceships of two would-be lovers humorously miss each other by a few small light-years because FTL communication hasn’t been invented yet.
Ryan / 7:18am / 4 February 2008