04-12-2014, 08:15 PM
I tend to agree with you regarding all of this. The futuristic technologies in the CCD will be amazing. Just a quicky search at cracked.com turned up some really cool stuff coming down the road in the very near future.
4 Cartoon Villain Technologies that are coming to life- could easily see Ascendency using some of these :-)
5 pieces of star wars technology that exist right now
15 real sci fi technologies about to change the world
Very likely then, CCD pop culture will definitely reflect this optimism for the future and CCD know how. One only has to think back (or look up on youtube since I doubt anyone here was alive back then, including myself) to the Tomorrowland reels for Disneyland or school in the 50s and 60s (Tomorrow land, predictions for 1999 from 1967). The greatest example is Star Trek itself, portraying what the world would one day look like because of scientific progress. Nuclear tech was the future and America, flush from its emergence from WWII as top dog in every way, was proudly flexing its muscles.
Again, the 80s showed similar trends as the US finally pulled ahead of the Soviets. Computer tech in particular led to futuristic videos and films and music- synthesizers, 3d graphics and so on. Computers were magic and could do anything Notice the unbridled optimism that can be seen in these 80s computer commercials or use of computers in movies or unabashed or ironic machismo of action films or completely sincere (with PSA style very special episodes) sitcoms. That optimism and sense of superiority expressed itself in anabashedly proud flag waving films and song. This same kind attitude seems like it would prevalent in CCD.
Your comment about retro subcultures was interesting. I can see that happening easily especially traditional Russian or Eastern European groups. There might even be coopting of non-traditonally Slavic cultures like Byzantine, as seat of a great empire that outlasted Rome, or even Mongol, given the reach of the Golden Horde and its legacy. It might be similar to the way Hitler and Nazi "scientists" coopted or invented any Teutonic connections they could find to create a national history and identity. (Hitler called his the 3rd Reich connecting it to Charlemagne and the Holy Roman Empire.) Wagners Ride of Valkyries is a good example. Likely there'd be something similar in CCD.[/url]
Edited by Connor Kent, Apr 13 2014, 10:54 AM.
4 Cartoon Villain Technologies that are coming to life- could easily see Ascendency using some of these :-)
5 pieces of star wars technology that exist right now
15 real sci fi technologies about to change the world
Very likely then, CCD pop culture will definitely reflect this optimism for the future and CCD know how. One only has to think back (or look up on youtube since I doubt anyone here was alive back then, including myself) to the Tomorrowland reels for Disneyland or school in the 50s and 60s (Tomorrow land, predictions for 1999 from 1967). The greatest example is Star Trek itself, portraying what the world would one day look like because of scientific progress. Nuclear tech was the future and America, flush from its emergence from WWII as top dog in every way, was proudly flexing its muscles.
Again, the 80s showed similar trends as the US finally pulled ahead of the Soviets. Computer tech in particular led to futuristic videos and films and music- synthesizers, 3d graphics and so on. Computers were magic and could do anything Notice the unbridled optimism that can be seen in these 80s computer commercials or use of computers in movies or unabashed or ironic machismo of action films or completely sincere (with PSA style very special episodes) sitcoms. That optimism and sense of superiority expressed itself in anabashedly proud flag waving films and song. This same kind attitude seems like it would prevalent in CCD.
Your comment about retro subcultures was interesting. I can see that happening easily especially traditional Russian or Eastern European groups. There might even be coopting of non-traditonally Slavic cultures like Byzantine, as seat of a great empire that outlasted Rome, or even Mongol, given the reach of the Golden Horde and its legacy. It might be similar to the way Hitler and Nazi "scientists" coopted or invented any Teutonic connections they could find to create a national history and identity. (Hitler called his the 3rd Reich connecting it to Charlemagne and the Holy Roman Empire.) Wagners Ride of Valkyries is a good example. Likely there'd be something similar in CCD.[/url]
Edited by Connor Kent, Apr 13 2014, 10:54 AM.