Favorite Sci-fi or Privacy movies/tv?

Silo is a TV show, and I would argue not exactly about privacy. It has some privacy-related plot points, but it’s not “about” privacy in the same vein as like Mr Robot or something. That said, it’s still fantastic and I highly recommend. One of my favorite shows on TV right now and I’m very impatiently awaiting Season 3.

RE the conversation about Brave New World & 1984, a funny thing to note is - as The Privacy Dad said - almost none of those stories were written as a “prediction of the future.” Nearly all of them were written about modern day problems, usually taken to their most extreme conclusion. That’s how a lot of “commentary” usually works - take something and push it to the most extreme possible outcome to point out the problems. Star Trek did this a lot, too, but in the other direction of pushing current problems to their most utopian potential outcome as a “look at what we could be if we pulled our collective heads out of our asses.” (Look at the original cast: a black woman, a Soviet man, and an alien all working together as equals in the 1960s and suddenly disease, poverty, and war are gone and we’re just chilling, cruising the galaxy.)

This is one of the reasons I think people who say “history doesn’t repeat itself” are being pedantic. Like obviously names and places and technology and such change, but the broad strokes are all the same. As one podcast I love likes to hyperbolize: “time is a flat circle.” It becomes one of those cases of “not hard to predict the future when you’re paying attention” kind of things cause we’ve already seen this a thousand times before. As Silent Planet says: “democracy’s died this death a thousand times.”

Anyways if we’re adding books, The Circle and The Every. Thanks for coming to my TED Talk. Tip your severs.