Handy Thematic Checklist

Via Hack the Planet:

[ ] The Singularity

[ ] Inscrutable artifacts abandoned by post-humans

[ ] Humanity oppressed by condescending post-humans

[ ] Humans vs. post-humans

[ ] Longing to return to the abandoned/destroyed Earth

[ ] Uploads/Downloads/Backups

[ ] Culture clash between people who back up and people who don’t

[ ] Blowing your head off with a plasma blaster

[ ] Direct neural interfaces

[ ] >3-dimensional GUIs while jacked in

[ ] Humans getting computer viruses

[ ] A galaxy-spanning web of teleportation gates/portals

[ ] Getting irradiated while retrieving a priceless artifact

course for tv or moives it would be a much shorter list….

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