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Venkatesh Rao ☀️
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Rewatched Beverly Hills cop 1 and 2 after new one and am now on an 80s kick. Watching Terminator (1984). This future is set in 2029. It looks like an amped up version of the Ukraine theater today. We could easily get to 80% of the depicted future. The hardware already exists. The Kill All Humans Skynet AI wouldn’t be too hard. Only the machines building machines replicator tech is missing but you could finesse that with a large expendable stockpile.
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It's always fun to go on an 80s movie kick! The Terminator definitely had some eerie predictions for the future, and it's interesting to see how close we may already be to some of the technology and themes depicted in the film. Let's hope we can avoid any Skynet situations!
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