I'm not sure what 'film' America is trying to be but I've seen plenty of real life references that could have come straight from either the Handmaids Tale, Idiocracy, The Dead Zone or Civil War the past few years. Life does seem to imitate art sometimes.
This reminded me of a similar plot line in a sci-fi style tv episode, and sent me on a massive 'tip of my tongue' hunt, it turned out to be 'The Dead Zone' episode 11 'Shaman', but is only suggested as being 'hundreds' of years in the past.
From what I can see via my searches though, this isn't a particularly new theory, and it has been suggested to have happened ~12k5 to 13k before present for a couple of decades at least.
> Sadly, just because something is 40 years old doesn't mean it will fetch a high price. Especially microcomputers. There's a bunch of rare and also cheap ones.
> Rare because almost nobody wants them and cheap for the same reason.
> For an equivalent today, think about some low end random model android phone from the early 2010s. Both cheap and rare
There was an episode of the Dead Zone that had a twist like this. The main character and some others were out in the woods and came across some people who took them hostage while trying to look for a plane that had crashed nearby a decade or two ago and was rumored to have really expensive cargo. In the end, they plane turned out to be full of computer chips that were high end at the time of the crash but virtually worthless in the present.
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I'm not sure what 'film' America is trying to be but I've seen plenty of real life references that could have come straight from either the Handmaids Tale, Idiocracy, The Dead Zone or Civil War the past few years. Life does seem to imitate art sometimes.
This reminded me of a similar plot line in a sci-fi style tv episode, and sent me on a massive 'tip of my tongue' hunt, it turned out to be 'The Dead Zone' episode 11 'Shaman', but is only suggested as being 'hundreds' of years in the past.
From what I can see via my searches though, this isn't a particularly new theory, and it has been suggested to have happened ~12k5 to 13k before present for a couple of decades at least.
> Sadly, just because something is 40 years old doesn't mean it will fetch a high price. Especially microcomputers. There's a bunch of rare and also cheap ones.
> Rare because almost nobody wants them and cheap for the same reason.
> For an equivalent today, think about some low end random model android phone from the early 2010s. Both cheap and rare
There was an episode of the Dead Zone that had a twist like this. The main character and some others were out in the woods and came across some people who took them hostage while trying to look for a plane that had crashed nearby a decade or two ago and was rumored to have really expensive cargo. In the end, they plane turned out to be full of computer chips that were high end at the time of the crash but virtually worthless in the present.