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Extrapolations
2023 · TV series · 1 season
Created by Scott Z. Burns
Eight interconnected stories told over 33 years explore how our planet’s changing climate will affect family, work, faith—and survival.
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Does it make great content? I've only watched 3 series and then cancelled because it was annoying (but all three were fairly popular), and the more they progressed, the more underwhelming they got. The premise was always good, but scenario was meh and getting meh-er by the episode, everything was kept superficial. Kind of like to tick a box "we talked about X", but without actually exploring the topic. And it was the exact same thing over and over again in 3 separate series - be it the gay footballer in Ted Lasso or the relationship with religion while in climate catastrophe in Extrapolations. No real depth, no real thought provoking discussions, no nothing. Just a quick mention, and jump on to the next topic to gloss over.
It seems to me that they spend a lot on big name actors, had some good initial ideas on what to do, but the actual execution was pretty meh.
Alpha was also the name of the virtual assistant owned by the bad guy in Extrapolations.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13821126/
This is an excellent observation
The idea has been somewhat famously illustrated in the concept of the muse, an external entity or influence that is the actual source of the ideas that we then channel into our reality
Similar also to what Michelangelo once said:
> The sculpture is already complete within the marble block, before I start my work. It is already there, I just have to chisel away the superfluous material.
On a similar vein of the “not in the brain” concept, there are many proponents of the “embodied” consciousness, meaning that consciousness is in the whole body, not just our brain/nervous system (this is also very briefly touched upon in one episode of the AppleTV series Extrapolations)
That’s pretty much the whole plot of the movie Don’t look up
The Extrapolations series on Apple TV also touches on this
Here on Long Island, everything is sepiatone, and it smells like a smokehouse.
But I also know that folks in California and Australia have been dealing with exactly this, for a long time. It's news, because it's happening to the Northeast US.
I was watching AppleTV+ Extrapolations[0], which is actually damn depressing. The first episode has wildfires everywhere, and air quality around the globe sucks.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extrapolations_(TV_series)
Just watched some eps of Extrapolations this week, the Apple TV show about climate change. It's (a sci-fi show that shows life in the future ~2040-2060) very far fetched, but not so much as to say it's out of the question that species continue to eradicate due to extreme climate change when it occurs. 1 cause was wildfires, and we saw some terrible fires over the last few years, from ones in Australia, or the Amazon, to ones in California. Still remember those pictures of burning Koalas in Australia. Another is the idea of rising sea levels which could cause many habitat loses like the Tiger ones.
But while these things may not be happening now, it does feel that more attention in terms of engineering efforts need to happen. There is a lot of hype and media outrage, but not seeing as much real substantive efforts. I hope we can control climate much better in the coming decades. Many believe Deep Learning will help with that. At the same time, these models are not as good at planning right now. So, I wonder if it will be as simple as that. Definitely in the realm of data extraction, and analysis, it will be of great help.