the Kurzweil LibraryUncategorized – the Kurzweil Library https://www.pressandappearances.com Tracking breakthroughs in tech, science, and world progress. Mon, 03 Nov 2025 06:26:37 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1 10 great sci-fi films that got the future all wrong https://www.pressandappearances.com/readwrite-10-great-sci-fi-films-that-got-the-future-all-wrong https://www.pressandappearances.com/readwrite-10-great-sci-fi-films-that-got-the-future-all-wrong#respond Fri, 10 May 2013 13:03:30 +0000 http://www.kurzweilai.net/?p=193217 In Logan’s Run, life is perfect. And then you die. At the ripe old age of 30. It may not be fair to include this film on the list. After all, it’s set 250 years from now. Who knows what will happen in that time?

However, given the fact that humanity continues to live longer, spends billions of dollars on extending life, and brilliant scientists such as Ray Kurzweil are actively pursuing a sort-of human-technological immortality through the singularity, I am going to go out on a limb and predict that Logan’s Run will always be wrong.[…]

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