It's interesting that Star Trek was actually quite progressive:
>Beyond Star Trek's fictional innovations, its contributions to TV history included a multicultural and multiracial cast. While more common in subsequent years, in the 1960s it was controversial to feature an Enterprise crew that included a Japanese helmsman, a Russian navigator, a black female communications officer, and a Vulcan-Terran first officer.
You would expect a little bit more now. The latest Star Trek film is basically about two white dudes battling two other white dudes plus "hey let's find an excuse to get this blonde chick in her underwear."
I'd love to see more of this adapted to challenge the modern mainstream. Why can't we have an openly gay muslim chinese captain and his southern white baptist communications officer all journey to some previously unexplored world of H1B immigrants who modeled their society based on the works of Ann Rand?
It's the same dissapoitment I had after I saw Prometheus: http://www.lukeschreur.com/posts/prometheus
A great novel that came out recently about transhumanism is Nexus: transhumanism: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0857662937/ref=as_li_ss_tl?...
That's what I was referring to by more modern scifi ideas. Why aren't they included in the storylines of older yet more mainstream stories like Star Trek / Futurama / etc
For more on the topic, I recommend: http://redlettermedia.com/half-in-the-bag-star-trek-into-dar...
The borg are definitely interesting, but they're portrayed as some machine like force. I mean why can't the crew of the Enterprise communicate with telepathic brain chips? Better way to transfer information.
(Never mind a more literal interpretation of my previous post...)
Movies are a horrible medium for describing philosophy. Their a great medium for demonstrating the ideas of a philosophy.
People who don't know how to make movies make movies with dry diatribes and overmuch dialog, whether the focus is philosophy or, well, anything else. But that's not a problem with the intersection of philosophy and film, that's a problem with the intersection of film and people who don't know how to make films.
It sounds like we need to think of better ideas for the future.